Bill Greason, currently the oldest living former MLB player (102-years young!) is also a Marine veteran who took part in the famous battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
In 1954, Mr. Greason became the first black pitcher in Cardinals franchise history.
#VeteransDay #VeteransDay2026 #STLCards
As Alonzo Hampton prepares for the biggest game of his four-year tenure as coach, he remains just as invested in building the total player through football and faith.
He calls the program a church. And for now, UAPB is making everyone believe.
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🦁 PINE BLUFF IS ON THE RISE!
Arkansas-Pine Bluff climbs to No. 3 after a 35–32 road win over Grambling State.
Next up: Prairie View A&M. SWAC West implications. Senior Day. Big opportunity.
📊 6–3 | ⬆️ 1
#HBCUFootball#HBCUPASS#UAPB
Seeing reaction from Cards fans today about The Athletic's reporting from the MLB GM Meetings that the Cardinals plan to approach this off-season's free agent frenzy in a similar manner to the last one, rather than splurging on high-priced talent.
"Bloom is likely to operate similar to the way he did last winter, adding durable veterans on short-term deals," The Athletic writes. "The idea would be for the vets to bring valuable experience to a young club and potentially emerge as trade chips at the deadline, enabling the team to continue to revamp its farm system."
My response to this... is that it sounds totally right.
Chaim Bloom has publicly described, consistently, that the Cardinals will look to find value wherever possible, but he also has described this as a process.
While the Cardinals won't have to 'sell' a bunch of their talent this time around like they did a year ago -- Gray, Arenado, Contreras, Donovan -- the team is still in the phase of stockpiling talent for the future rather than investing in a win-now approach by hitting free agency hard.
What the Athletic is sharing is absolutely reflective of reality. It's just interesting to see some Cards fans react with surprise to it.
Generally, we've known this to be true. And frankly, it makes sense that the Cardinals would approach it this way.
In a winter that will precede a work stoppage of indeterminate length, after which the rules will potentially drastically change with regard to the economics of the sport, this off-season never really lined up as the one in which the Cardinals would suddenly open the floodgates on an immediate pursuit of a championship.
The slow burn worked wonders for advancing the farm system over the past year. One more year of a similar aggression within the confines of their specific approach -- lining up with the dust settling on the CBA situation -- could allow the young talent in the organization to mature, growing one more year closer to arriving as big-league reinforcements.
A year from now, if the player development in the system continues on this current path? I believe we'll be having a different conversation about Bloom's approach to the 2027-2028 off-season. Putting the pedal to the metal might truly be another year away than that, but I could envision some differences to the approach as early as next winter if the farm system continues to produce returns at this pace.
For now, though, the timing seems right to continue on course -- not by sitting on their hands, but by executing, with intent, the same approach that has gotten them to this point with a strong farm system setting the foundation for the club's future.
It was a long time coming.
Pine Bluff opened its new gym for the first time Tuesday night, and @PineBluff_Bball celebrated with an opening night victory against Joe T. Robinson. #arpreps
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Today is Veterans Day - we will honour athletes that served for this country
Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis were stationed together at Fort Riley in WW2
Different cities, same Schlitt.
Cam Schlittler led Major League pitchers on the road in ERA (1.16), strikeouts (129K), opponents’ BA (.153), opponents’ OBP (.206), opponents’ OPS (.456) and WHIP (0.74).