Former Cardinals Watch

[Vidor]

It seems Preston Wilson is a color guy for the Marlins.

[Jmodene]

It seems Preston Wilson is a color guy for the Marlins.

And Tino Martinez is their hitting coach.

[Radbird]

Colby seems to have trimmed his mullet just a tad.

Rasmus' three-run homer

[TGantz]

It seems Preston Wilson is a color guy for the Marlins.

That's racist.

[fanforever]

Link for entire Article:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/da ... h-failure/

“Coming from where I came from, I didn’t know how to work, really, and Motor knows that. I would just always be balls to the wall instead of pacing myself because Tony (La Russa, the former St. Louis Cardinals manager) would always say, ‘You’ve got to play every game like it’s the seventh game of the World Series.’ I didn’t know how to tone it down for the 162, you know?

“I was always getting whipped like that horse going round the track, so it was hard for me to learn how to do that.”

Asked why he can’t simply forget a rough night and move on, he replies: “I was never able to look at it that way. St. Louis was very result-oriented, if you go 0-fer, you didn’t play the next day when I was a rookie, so it was instilled in me when I was 22 years old and I didn’t know no different. I just tried to listen to what they say and do it, sometimes good, sometimes bad.”

As a result, Rasmus never fully trusted a batting stance, a swing, an approach at the plate because every 0-fer made him adjust. Combined with the burden of expectation on him in St. Louis, where he was a first-round pick in 2005 and projected as the next great Cardinal, it made for a very difficult way to play.

“That’s why I haven’t been as good as people thought I should be,” he says bluntly. “From the time I was this big (he puts his hand just above his knee), I was working to get here, pounding protein shakes, working out when I was 10 years old, running sleds, pulling weights I shouldn’t have even been pulling, and trying to get here.

“Then I get here and it’s like you can’t even enjoy the game because it’s so, got to do it. You can’t just enjoy being here, being around the teammates and stuff like that. I say that because now it’s better for me, here I’m definitely better. I still got some demons in my head I’m trying to get out, but that’s just part of it, part of things that scar you along the way.”

[heyzeus]

It seems Preston Wilson is a color guy for the Marlins.

[Vidor]

The only two players with more that two Horns are Sammy Sosa and Ray Lankford.

And if you don't know what a Horn is, why not?

http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/6/21 ... n-nickname

[Vidor]

39-year-old Lou Brock t-shirts available on ebay

http://www.baseballnation.com/hot-corne ... ld-t-shirt

[heyzeus]

Brian Tallet has retired from baseball.
The story was reported by Burt Wilson of Lancaster Newspapers and confirmed by MLB Trade Rumors. Tallet, who was pitching for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the independent Atlantic League, will pursue a career in coaching. He finishes his career with a 4.79 ERA in 242 appearances (36 starts) over parts of nine seasons between the Blue Jays, Indians, and Cardinals.

[Jmodene]

From the same MLBTR update:

The Reds released outfielder Joe Mather, Baseball America's Matt Eddy revealed in his minor league transactions post for June 13-19. Mather had signed a minor league deal out of the Atlantic League with the Reds in May, but hit .174/.287/.291 in 102 Double-A plate appearances. Mather was drafted by the Cardinals in the third round in 2001, a round that also produced big leaguers Scott Hairston, Jack Hannahan, and Ryan Theriot.