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St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday doesn’t believe current penalties for performance enhancing drugs are strict enough.

A look at the numbers indicates a 2012 National League Silver Slugger Award was given to the wrong outfielder.

The 2012 St. Louis Cardinals reached another offensive balance milestone on Saturday, this one in run production.

The St. Louis Cardinals have three hitters with 20 or more home runs and two more with 19. We look at how that distribution stacks up in team history.

Two of the St. Louis Cardinals biggest RBI men padded their totals on Sunday.

Links to news about St. Louis Cardinals minor leaguers, primarily from their hometown papers.

Chicago Cubs outfielder Marlon Byrd supports a slide by St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday that took out his teammate Starlin Castro on Saturday.

A series of questions to determine what you would do if you were the St. Louis Cardinals, having to decide how to deal with Matt Holliday’s unexpected time out of the lineup.

Though agent Scott Boras took Matt Holliday into free agency one year ago, the outfielder returned to the St. Louis Cardinals via the biggest contract team history.

Looking at OPS+ marks by the St. Louis Cardinals’ top three hitters over the Albert Pujols years.

How does the current middle of the St. Louis Cardinals lineup compare to their 2004 predecessors?

With 21 Gold Glove Awards over the last ten years, the St. Louis Cardinals almost doubled the next closest team and added another 13 Sliver Slugger Awards.

On Saturday, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday hit his sixth last at-bat game-winning hit since August 2009.

In the last half-century, no St. Louis Cardinals hitter has had more seasons of four or more four-hit games than Curt Flood.

The two big bats in the St. Louis Cardinals lineup have been driving in runs with two outs in 2010.

Picking out one of St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday’s hot hitting stats.

The addition of Mark DeRosa, then Matt Holliday defined the 2009 St. Louis Cardinals season.

For the ongoing services of outfielder Matt Holliday, the St. Louis Cardinals and agent Scott Boras carried out an intricate dance for months.

Why the conditions may be right for the St. Louis Cardinals to move to lock up Albert Pujols.

Now that the Cardinals have agreed to terms with outfielder Matt Holliday on a record-setting new contract, is the jury in on the big trade that brought him to St. Louis in the first place?

Erroneous news on a supposed new Matt Holliday offer from the St. Louis Cardinals is amplified all over cyberspace before being pulled.

Why might both Scott Boras and the St. Louis Cardinals consider a shorter-term contact for free agent Matt Holliday?

The MLB Players Association plays a powerful, but almost-invisible role in placement of top free agents.

There may be something for Matt Holliday to learn from this week’s Johnny Damon saga and a similar story from over two decades ago.

Can the St. Louis Cardinals learn anything from a dissection of the New York Yankees’ 2008 pursuit of Mark Teixeira?

The St. Louis Cardinals are getting to the point where they need to force Scott Boras to declare his hand regarding Matt Holliday.

A pair of former big bats from the Colorado Rockies are now free agents. The St. Louis Cardinals are thinking about at least one of them.

The St. Louis Cardinals are experiencing some extra spice in their Holliday cooking due to an unwanted touch of Bay while the GM puts the heat on the super agent.

Why is the Matt Holliday contract situation causing heightened emotions across Cardinal Nation?

A collection of recent St. Louis Cardinals-related links of interest with a little commentary sprinkled in.

Matt Holliday’s Oakland results following Mark McGwire’s winter instruction leave some major questions as to its effectiveness.

It looks like a number of big money teams will get in on the Matt Holliday chase. Every one decreases the Cardinals’ dwindling chances of retaining him.

Some doubt the presence of Matt Holliday in the Cardinals lineup benefited teammate Albert Pujols.

A long-term contract with a two-year out for Matt Holliday might not be as crazy as it first may sound.

Matt Holliday’s error did not end the 2009 NLDS, yet the blueprint for the blame game has been in place for a long time.

The St. Louis Cardinals have played superb baseball since the late July arrival of Matt Holliday. Why is that?

With three weeks still remaining in the regular season, speculation over Matt Holliday’s future is getting out of hand

While Matt Holliday’s hitting surge as a Cardinal is good for the present, will it damage his chances of remaining with the club in 2010 and beyond?

A case is made for the St. Louis Cardinals to bat new cleanup hitter Matt Holliday second

Matt Holliday’s scalding offensive start as a St. Louis Cardinal is rewriting the record books

Offering a personal angle on the major stories last week across the Cardinal Nation and digging up some old ones, too

St. Louis Cardinals’ trade acquisitions Matt Holliday and Julio Lugo had big first weekends with the club

An attempt to quantify the value of the Matt Holliday trade

Lots of signals, many of them mixed, regarding a rumored deal between the Cardinals and A’s.

Brian Walton’s look back at the biggest stories across the St. Louis Cardinal Nation during 2008 continues with those ranked 11 through 15.