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The St. Louis Cardinals made it to the postseason for the first time since 2006, and they have their farm system to thank, at least partially.

If you're looking for something to stuff the stockings with this Christmas, the Redbirds have placed holiday ticket packages on sale for the 2010 season.

Cardinals stand pat with their bullpen Anchored by closer Ryan Franklin, the unit should return largely intact in the 2010 season.

TOP OF THE EIGHTH INNING Jason Motte replaces Smoltz as the Cardinals' pitcher. He faces three Dodgers and they all ground-out to short.

Cardinals reliever Jason Motte was putting on the gear and readying to revisit his roots as a catcher late in Sunday's game when rookie David Freese volunteered that he had played a few games behind the plate in his career.

Ryan Braun doubled twice to leave him one hit short of 200 and drove in the tying run before scoring the go-ahead one in Milwaukee's six-run seventh inning.

The Cardinals have had many, many great hitting pitchers in their long and illustrious history.

Albert Pujols holds plenty of batting records, but on Sunday he bolstered his standing in the game's history in another way.

For a superstar such as Albert Pujols, who is making $14.4 million this year, postseason pay provides a relatively modest bonus to his regular-season salary.

A look at how pro baseball players with ties to the Hudson Valley are faring in 2009: Majors Joe Nathan : Nathan and the Twins are making a push toward the first-place Tigers, with two weeks left in the regular season.

QUESTION: Closer Ryan Franklin has blown his last two save chances and hs ERA is climbing in recent weeks.

His start abbreviated by a four-run fourth inning, righthander Todd Wellemeyer exposed the Cardinals' bullpen to a hazardous five innings of work in a game already filled with runs.

Things couldn't have started any worse for reliever Jason Motte when he blew the save on Opening Day against the Pirates.

Adam Wainwright picked up his major league-leading 18th victory Wednesday while leading St.

Almost everyone in Neil Walker's family was at PNC Park on Sunday to witness his first hit in the major leagues.

It was incredibly hard to discern what third baseman Neil Walker was ready to categorize as the coolest part of getting his first Major League hit on Sunday -- the fact that it came in front of nearly his entire family and numerous friends, that it happened less than 20 miles from the Gibsonia, Pa., home he grew up in, or that the second person to ...

Right-hander Charlie Morton's next start will be pushed back to Friday. Morton, who has soreness in his groin, had been slated to start Tuesday.

What do you do when your team has over a month to prepare for final exams? On this, the last day of August 2009, The Cardinals have opened up a double digit lead in the NL Central over the horrifying racists better known as the Chicago Cubs.

Albert Pujols' major league-leading 41st home run led off the bottom of the ninth and lifted St.

The list of National League pitchers that are available in most fantasy leagues and producing solid statistics is abundant, so even if you are facing significant injury problems this late in the season there are options to help out your squad.