Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Sept. 12. 1) Freddie Freeman (1989) Freeman followed Chipper Jones as the face of the Braves' franchise and is

ST. LOUIS -- Beginning with Stan Musial's No. 6, which was retired in 1963, the Cardinals have recognized the franchise's top players and influential individuals by taking their uniform numbers out of circulation. Those names and numbers now adorn the left-field wall at Busch Stadium, and the numbers appear below

ARLINGTON -- Two years removed from triple-digit losses, mere weeks removed from midseason messes and having overcome unsightly seeding and last year’s pennant winners, the Rangers and D-backs now meet in a World Series showdown that is as exciting as it was unlikely.

ST. LOUIS -- Though there is often an urgency to declare winners and losers after a trade is executed, rarely is the full impact of a deal realized immediately. Time can peel away unforeseen layers and thus best judge whether one team pulled off a heist or whether both benefited

ST. LOUIS -- A recent article by MLB.com's Will Leitch highlighting 10 former Yankees who you may not remember as former Yankees got us thinking about what such a list might look like for other baseball franchises. Curious about the same? Well, you're in luck. Here we'll take a look

A version of this story first appeared in 2019 Issue 4 of Cardinals Magazine. It has been adapted to reflect Monday’s announcement that the Cardinals have named Oliver Marmol as their next manager.

There’s plenty of drama awaiting as the National League Championship Series returns to Atlanta for at least one game at Truist Park this weekend. The Braves are seeking to return to the World Series for the first time since 1999, while the Dodgers are hoping for one more championship with

ST. LOUIS -- The job Mike Shildt did in guiding St. Louis to its first division title since 2015 has earned the Cardinals’ manager a top-three finish in the National League Manager of the Year Award race. Shildt will learn exactly how high he’ll finish on Nov. 12, when the

ST. LOUIS -- Though the Cardinals haven’t publicly indicated whether they’ll explore bringing Marcell Ozuna back under a multiyear deal, the club has extended a one-year qualifying offer to the outfielder. Ozuna was one of 10 players across Major League Baseball to receive a qualifying offer -- worth $17.8 million

ST. LOUIS – Kolten Wong finally has his golden hardware. After years of falling short in attaining the personal honor he coveted most, Wong parlayed his latest standout defensive season into a Rawlings Gold Glove Award. The announcement came during a televised special Sunday evening. None of the Cardinals’ other

ST. LOUIS -- The Cardinals’ offseason roster reconstruction continued on Friday, as the club moved three players off the 60-day injured list, outrighted one to the Minors and lost another via waivers. Right-hander Mike Mayers, who was limited to 16 appearances with the Cards last season, largely due to injury,

ST. LOUIS -- It’s the matchup baseball was denied seven Octobers ago. The one Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo so vigorously defended while others in the industry wondered (out loud, in some cases) how and why Washington could be so certain that this was the necessary move for the individual

ST. LOUIS -- David Freese, the hometown hero who etched himself in Cardinals history with a pair of swings one October night in 2011, has called it a career. After hinting throughout the season that this would likely be his last, Freese, 36, made his decision to retire official with

ST. LOUIS -- To walk, or not to walk? It’s the question that keeps managers up at night and provides armchair managers ammunition for debate. And there’s been plenty of material for the latter already this postseason.

While it’ll be several more weeks before official league-wide superlatives are handed out across Major League Baseball, we’ll get a head start passing out (imaginary) hardware in this week’s division notebook. Here are our selections for team MVPs across the National League Central: Brewers: Christian Yelich Despite going down with

ST. LOUIS -- Giants setup man Tony Watson may have saved San Francisco's 9-8 win over the Cardinals with his lunging tag on Kolten Wong in the eighth inning on Wednesday, but the defensive highlight didn’t come without some sacrifice. Fortunately for the lefty reliever, the only remaining wound a

ST. LOUIS -- The Giants made a quiet exit from Busch Stadium on Thursday, falling 10-0 to the Cardinals one day after breaking out for nine runs in a back-and-forth victory. • Box score It was reminiscent of how the week started for San Francisco, which scored one combined run

ST. LOUIS -- Jaylin Davis had no idea who it was calling him late Tuesday, one day before he was to begin play in the Pacific Coast League playoffs. The Oregon area code hade him puzzled. He answered anyway. The man on the other line peppered Davis with a few

ST. LOUIS -- First, they squandered a four-run advantage. Then they frittered away a three-run lead. But the Giants had one more game-changing swing to offer, and it came from Kevin Pillar, whose two-run, eighth-inning homer lifted San Francisco to a 9-8 win over the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. The

ST. LOUIS -- The only Dodger Stadium mound that Johnny Cueto will climb this weekend is the one in the visitor’s bullpen, as the right-hander’s return from Tommy John surgery won’t come until after the club’s road trip. Instead of pitching in the Giants' upcoming series against the Dodgers, Cueto

ST. LOUIS -- Sights that were, only weeks earlier, set on October are now mostly transfixed on what the Giants can glean from September. And yes, they believe there’s something to be salvaged. It won’t necessarily come in the standings, where the Giants fell six games below .500 with their

ST. LOUIS -- The Giants added to their infield depth on Tuesday by claiming Corban Joseph off waivers from the A’s, who had designated him for assignment on Sunday. Though the majority of his career appearances have come as a second baseman, Joseph is likely to see more time at

ST. LOUIS -- Tyler Beede tiptoed closer to unchartered territory on Monday. If only the journey were a bit less bumpy. Beede lasted four innings in a 3-1 loss to the Cardinals at Busch Stadium, where the Giants -- with their postseason hopes fading -- opened a four-game series in

ST. LOUIS -- A day after Reyes Moronta suffered a season-ending shoulder injury, the Giants summoned a pair of pitchers -- right-hander Kyle Barraclough and left-hander Andrew Suarez -- to fortify their bullpen for the final four weeks of the regular season. Both made immediate appearances in the club’s 3-1

ST. LOUIS -- The Cardinals’ grip on their division lead tightened ever so slightly the moment three Milwaukee defenders peeled off on what seemed a routine two-out popup Tuesday night. The ball dropped. The bases cleared. And the Cardinals parlayed the shot of momentum into a 9-4 win over the