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The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Not much was expected of Cardinals rookie shortstop Pete Kozma this season other than to be steady in the field and not an automatic out from the eighth position in the batting...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH The gems of the Cardinals minor league system keep shining upon their arrival in the major leagues. The latest was on display Wednesday in San Diego, where Tyler Lyons threw...

MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay has gone from table-setter to run-producer. Jay, the leadoff man for much of the second half of last season and for the first month this season, has fit comfortably...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH The Cardinals have held the best record in the National League for a while now, despite having more than a third of their prospective $115 million payroll on the disabled list....

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH The Cardinals' starting pitching, best in the majors by a wide margin for the first one-quarter of the season, has taken on some attrition. Two of the five have landed on the 15-day...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH The Cardinals have had the best rotations in the majors with the season almost one-quarter over. And they've also thrown the most pitches. Until Los Angeles Dodgers' left-hander...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH True to his spring training word, manager Mike Matheny has been giving 36-year-old right fielder Carlos Beltran more days off in hopes of keeping him fresher for the second half....

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Chris Carpenter, the rehabbing (again) Cardinals right hander, cautions that neither he nor anyone else should look too far ahead regarding his comeback. But, anticipating the day...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Matt Carpenter was the Cardinals' top pinch hitter last season with 11 runs batted in on eight hits, and the Cardinals' bench, relatively unproductive this season, could use him....

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Because of strong starting pitching taking the team deep into games and a productive starting lineup which also has helped power the Cardinals to a 23-13 start, the club's pinch...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Right hander Shelby Miller was supposed to be almost this good. Just not this soon. After a rough first half at Triple-A Memphis last year, when Miller had displayed an...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH The Cardinals' 22-12 record, already tops in the majors, bears some scrutiny because it has been compiled, in large part, against the best teams in the National League. With the...