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Highlights from Wednesday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Florida as Shelby Miller stars.

Catch me talking St. Louis Cardinals spring training baseball news with Matt Perrault and Ken Miller on KXnO FOX Sports Radio 1460 in Des Moines today (Wednesday) at 6:05 p.m. Central.

Highlights from Tuesday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Florida as the Memphis Redbirds hammered Mets ace Johan Santana.

Rather than stop audio broadcasts of their games entirely, the Quad Cities River Bandits will live stream 2010 home games on the internet.

Highlights from Sunday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Florida.

Brian Walton joins Jeff Erickson on RotoWire’s Fantasy Sports Today on Sirius 125 / XM 241 at about 12:15 p.m. Eastern on Monday

Highlights from Saturday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Florida.

Highlights from Friday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Florida.

Highlights from Thursday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Florida.

Highlights from Wednesday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Florida.

Highlights from Tuesday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Jupiter, Florida.

Highlights from Monday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Highlights from Sunday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games in Jupiter, Florida.

Highlights from Saturday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games from Jupiter, Florida.

Highlights from Friday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games from Jupiter, Florida.

Highlights from Thursday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games from Jupiter, Florida.

Highlights from Wednesday’s St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training games from Jupiter, Florida.

Former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher John Smoltz accepts three broadcasting jobs.

Talking St. Louis Cardinals spring training baseball news with Ken Miller on KXnO FOX Sports Radio 1460 in Des Moines today (Wednesday) at 4:30 p.m. Central.

Comparing St. Louis Cardinals spring vs. regular season batting average and ERA during the 2000-2009 period.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa didn’t mince words when asked about the Ryan Howard-Albert Pujols trade rumor.

A wild idea reportedly offered up in an MLB brainstorming session seems to have many overly concerned while a key member in the room denies it even came up.

“Tasteless” radio station stunt targeted at Mark McGwire leads to banishment.

Looking at three new lists assessing young major league players and international prospects.

The man behind the Mark McGwire media plan has lost a couple of high-profile gigs.

Long-time St. Louis Cardinals scout received his profession’s highest honor.

Offering up some links to interesting St. Louis Cardinals-related reading around the web.

St. Louis Cardinals prospects stack up very differently when looking at potential contribution at the major league level this season.

Just for fun, not for keeps, we’ll take a quick look at where the 2010 Cardinals line up with the gamblers.

The St. Louis Cardinals’ GM isn’t considered by a Sports Illustrated writer to be among the top half in his field.

With Thursday’s first spring training game upon us, I looked at St. Louis Cardinals spring records during the La Russa era with an eye toward the regular season.

Catch me talking St. Louis Cardinals spring training baseball news with Matt Perrault and Ken Miller on KXnO FOX Sports Radio 1460 in Des Moines today (Wednesday) at 5:45 p.m. Central.

Joe Torre recounts the story of how the Yankees wanted him as GM and Tony La Russa as manager back in October 1995. Imagine how the MLB landscape might have changed.

The name of the venerable author and humorist may be added to the highway currently honoring the former St. Louis Cardinals slugger.

Having last pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals in October, John Smoltz was in the news this weekend – on the political pages.