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St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Sunday, March 29.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Saturday, March 28.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Friday, March 27.

The St. Louis Cardinals’ 2009 full season minor league rosters are beginning to take shape.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Thursday, March 26.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Wednesday, March 25.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Tuesday, March 24.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Monday, March 23.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Sunday, March 22.

Tony La Russa has made a change to the bottom of the St. Louis Cardinals lineup again, though it is not cut and dried.

The eighth look at St. Louis Cardinals minor league franchises offers a summary of all locations by season over the last 35 years.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Friday, March 20.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Thursday, March 19.

The seventh in-depth look at St. Louis Cardinals minor league franchises continues with their complex rookie league club, currently the Gulf Coast League Cardinals.

St. Louis Cardinals minor league spring training game action from Wednesday, March 18.

The sixth in-depth look at St. Louis Cardinals minor league franchises continues with their Triple-A entries, currently the Memphis Redbirds of the Pacific Coast League.

During spring training, new St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Khalil Greene has been either really good or really bad. It seems to transfer to his regular seasons, as well.

The fifth in-depth look at St. Louis Cardinals minor league franchises continues with their Double-A entry, currently the Springfield Cardinals of the Texas League.

The fourth of six in-depth looks at St. Louis Cardinals minor league franchises continues with their Class A-Advanced Florida State League entry, currently the Palm Beach Cardinals.

The St. Louis Cardinals Single-A entry, currently the Quad Cities River Bandits, is their top affiliate in terms of wins and playoff appearances. This is the third of six in-depth looks at the history of the Cardinals system’s minor league clubs.

The St. Louis Cardinals’ projected player payroll is down $8.6 million from 2008, very close to the average for clubs in the top half of spending across MLB.

The second of six in-depth looks at St. Louis Cardinals minor league franchises continues with their Appalachian League entry, the Johnson City Cardinals.

The first of six in-depth looks at St. Louis Cardinals minor league franchises begins with the New York-Penn League

A new series highlighting St. Louis Cardinals minor league results system-wide from 1984 through 2008.

Looking at what readers are currently asking about the St. Louis Cardinals through a search of their web queries.

St. Louis Cardinals news include three former hurlers finding new homes, three additional spring training invites and more.

Breaking down which St. Louis Cardinals players debuted during the Tony La Russa years and which exhausted their rookie status in the process.

Digging into the numbers to try to understand how the 2008 St. Louis Cardinals bullpen went south.

The St. Louis Cardinals appear to have revised their player payroll budget down for 2009. Is it justified? How can we know?

St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Troy Glaus has a unique record in Venezuelan baseball, a place of growing importance to the organization today.

Lee Enterprises announced their sale of 2.7% of the St. Louis Cardinals to the team’s majority ownership group. It is not enough to solve their deep financial problems.

A series of quick hits on and links to recent St. Louis Cardinals baseball news.

Former St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, tainted by steroids suspicion, loses ground in the 2009 Baseball Hall of Fame voting.

A complete listing of all 306 players currently known to be under contract in the St. Louis Cardinals organization from top to bottom by level assigned and primary position.

The St. Louis Cardinals have pruned 12 minor league players, including three from the US and nine from their overseas academies.

Autograph prices at the St. Louis Cardinals fan event, Winter Warm-Up, offer one view of fan valuation of current players.

A reader asks a question to settle a brotherly bet that takes us back to 1986 and Ozzie Smith’s greatest-ever defensive play.

When will the St. Louis Cardinals major and minor leaguers report to camp and how does the World Baseball Classic affect spring training?

Taking a look at television-related St. Louis Cardinals news

The St. Louis Cardinals have announced the schedule for the team’s 2009 Cardinals Caravan, making stops in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Tennessee this month.

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The St. Louis Cardinals would be better off if free agent left-hander Odalis Perez lands in the National League Central – with one of their competitors!

A look back at the biggest stories across the St. Louis Cardinal Nation during 2008 begins with numbers 16 through 20.

The parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Lee Enterprises, Inc. is on the verge of bankruptcy. They also own a minority stake in the St. Louis Cardinals.

As the St. Louis Cardinals increase their brick and mortar investment in Venezuela, the Houston Astros are bailing out.

Their Rochester saviors lost over $250,000 running the Batavia Muckdogs in 2008. While there are plans to try to fix that in 2009, the losses can’t continue.

The St. Louis Cardinals seem to be pushing special ticket deals more furiously than ever before. Is the economy a factor?

Richard Justice of the Houston Chronicle is not counting the St. Louis Cardinals out of the 2009 National League Central race, though he sees the local Astros at risk of hitting bottom.

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