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MLB Trade Rumors 8:05pm CDT The Cardinals brought back a pair of familiar faces, and swung one of the winter’s biggest trades to add a new star to the lineup. Major League Signings Total spend: $17MM Notable Minor League Signings For the first two-plus months of the offseason, the entire NL Central seemed focused on trimming payroll rather than adding talent.  The Cardinals were no exception, as they chose to buy out Kolten Wong for $1MM rather than exercise their $12.5MM club option on the second baseman for 2021. The decision brought a swift end to Wong’s eight years in St. Louis, and ...

By Rick Hummel St. Louis Post-Dispatch JUPITER, Fla.—The Cardinals’ projected five-man rotation shrank to three with the news that lefthander Kwang Hyun Kim’s back stiffened three days ago, near the end of a bullpen session while he was preparing for what would have been his start Saturday night here against the Miami Marlins. Daniel Ponce de Leon received that start instead and made mostly a favorable impression. Ponce de Leon threw a Cardinals spring-high 68 pitches as he left the game having blanked the Miami Marlins into the fourth inning. A two-out wild pitch b...

share-square-1184686 The Cardinals continued to add to their depth and fuel ongoing positional battles on Friday, acquiring catcher Ali Sánchez from the Mets in exchange for cash considerations. Sánchez was the Mets’ No. 21 prospect in 2020, per MLB Pipeline. St. Louis has four catchers on its 40-man roster, which features 39 players overall. Sánchez will compete for a backup spot behind Yadier Molina, along with Andrew Knizner and Tyler Heineman, a non-roster invitee to Spring Training. Knizner, who appeared in eight games in 2020, seems to have the inside track for the backup ...

Pitchers and catchers! Those words will be on the tips of baseball fans' tongues next week when hurlers and backstops report for their first Spring Training workouts in Arizona and Florida between Feb. 17-19. Several of the game's top prospects will be included in those initial report dates, either as members of the 40-man roster or non-roster invitees. But just because top pitching and catching prospects will be in camp together, that is far from a guarantee they will work in tandem from the beginning of the regular season. With that in mind, this edition of the Toolshed looks at notable pit...

share-square-2413986 It’s been nearly a week since MLB Pipeline unveiled its Top 100 Prospects for 2021, and in that time our Pipeline team has already answered many of your questions about the players who made the list. But the very act of having to rank a finite number of prospects means that we also were forced to make some difficult omissions. And for some fans, finding out which players came close to making the Top 100 can be as interesting as the list itself. With that in mind, MLB Pipeline has compiled a list of each team’s top prospect who didn’t make the 2021 Top 100. It also s...