Ex-Phillies, Mets pitcher steps down as Cardinals coach

Baseball season will be here before you know it. 32 MLB teams with a chance to win a World Series. Let's take a look at some: Who Will Win the National League futures: Picks: LA Dodgers & St Louis Cardinals+1600. After winning 100 games in the regular season a year ago, the Dodgers added Shohei Ohtani and several other pieces to an otherwise…

PHILADELPHIA -- Call him Philly Rob. Call him Topper. Whatever the nickname, the Philadelphia Phillies can call Rob Thomson their manager for at least two more seasons. The Phillies signed Thomson to a one-year contract extension through the 2025 season after he led the team to two straight trips to the NL Championship Series. He worked most of…

The Philadelphia Phillies have signed manager Rob Thomson to a one-year contract extension through the 2025 season after he led the team to two straight trips to the NL Championship Series. The 60-year-old Thomson has a 155-118 record since the veteran bench coach replaced Joe Girardi as Phillies manager on June 3, 2022. Thomson led the Phillies to…

Since the World Series debuted in 1903, only six current teams have failed to win baseball's biggest prize. None have come closer than the Texas Rangers. With their seven-game ALCS win over the rival Houston Astros, the Rangers clinched a spot in the 2023 World Series to set up a championship clash with the Arizona Diamondbacks, who won their lone…

Happy Saturday, Viva El Birdos! The VEB Podcast was back together on Thursday night to bring you a preview of the National League and a run down of the contenders in each division. We were joined by Drew Silva, former of NBC Sports and now all over the place. Drew has called St. Louis home since his high school days and credits Viva El Birdos as…

Opening Day is almost here, and now it's time to make three bets on one of Major League Baseball's toughest divisions: the National League East. Let's start with the Braves, the defending division champs. Braves to win division (+145) Like death and taxes, the Braves being undervalued every season has become one of life's certainties. Seemingly…

SURPRISE, Ariz. - I'm old enough to remember a time - say, 2022, for example - when talk of high draft picks was all the Rangers' organization had going for it. Along those lines, in their fifth exhibition game, the Rangers unveiled Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker, the Vanderbilt pitchers taken with the second and third picks of the last two draft…

E-A-G- ... wait, what? Pitchers and catchers report next week? True. Once the Eagles and Chiefs settle Super Bowl LVII, mitts will begin poppin' across Florida and Arizona. Until then, LVII Phillies /baseball notes: I. Bryce Harper is in the strengthening phase of rehabbing from elbow surgery 11 weeks ago. He's targeting mid-March to swing a bat.…

The Texas Rangers are working on their pitching, and that means taking a look at the coaching staff. BUY MLB TICKETS: STUBHUB, VIVID SEATS, TICKETSMARTER, TICKETMASTER The Dallas Morning News' Evan Grant reports that veteran pitching coach Mike Maddux has emerged as a "lead candidate" to join the Rangers coaching staff. But he probably wouldn't…

Sunday morning, 131 players became free agents. They will be free to negotiate and sign anywhere they choose, beginning Thursday, Nov. 10. All eyes will immediately turn to outfielder Aaron Judge, who declined an extension to remain with the New York Yankees, choosing to bet on himself, and then put together one of the greatest offensive seasons a…

A shock in the baseball world this season has been the Philadelphia Phillies. After starting 22-29 on the season, Philadelphia fired head coach Joe Girardi, and it was all up from there. In their first game after Girardi's departure, the Phillies dominated the Angels. Now, they're in a 2-2 series battle with the Houston Astros in the World…

CHICAGO - The Chicago White Sox hired Kansas City Royals bench coach Pedro Grifol to replace Hall of Famer Tony La Russa as their manager, a person familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the hiring. ESPN first reported the move. The 52-year-old Grifol will try…

A complete list of every St. Louis Cardinals free agent and predictions for where they will sign. The St. Louis Cardinals were a powerhouse in the NL Central all season, ultimately winning the division with a comfortable seven-game lead over the second-place Milwaukee Brewers. Things looked promising for this Cardinals club heading into the…

Dave Dombrowski has had a ton of success over his many years as a front office executive. Dombrowski was at the helm of the Detroit Tigers front office when they went to the World Series in 2006 and again in 2012. He also was the president of baseball operations when the Boston Red Sox won it all in 2018. Four years later, he is the general manager…

Monday was a bit different than usual in the Tuley's Takes home office. After going non-stop every weekend with wall-to-wall football on Saturdays and Sundays, my Mondays are usually spent catching up on some sleep and doing some errands/chores around the house and getting a head-start on my big Wednesday column (which used to run in "Point Spread…

After sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals, the Philadelphia Phillies will face the Atlanta Braves in the National League divisional series, which is scheduled to begin Tuesday. It's just the second time the Phillies have played the Braves in the postseason. The two teams faced off in the 1993 National League championship series, which the Phillies won…

The Chicago White Sox' 2022 season concluded with an abysmal 10-1 loss to the Minnesota Twins. It was a fitting ending in a few ways. First and foremost, the South Siders were abysmal all season. Taking shellackings from below-average teams was a common theme throughout the campaign. And, to add to that, the Sox were below average themselves…

This year's National League playoff field exemplifies why the postseason expanded to 12 teams. First, there are the Phillies (87-75), who under the former 10-team format would have fallen just short of a wild-card berth. Instead, they earned the No. 6 seed and returned to the postseason for the first time since 2011. The Mets, winners of 101 games…

The Cardinals have won three World Series in the past 55 years, which may not seem like a lot, except that only the New York Yankees (seven) and Boston Red Sox (four) have more. But, like this season, in the three World Series the Cardinals have won since 1967 they were not considered the favorites in any of them. In 1982, the Cardinals were…

2022 MLB Postseason Bracket, Courtesy of MLB.com The Major League Baseball playoffs are here! After uncertainty if baseball would be played at all in 2022 due to the MLB Lockout, this season was full of surprises, disappointment and 162 games of fun. One of the changes made by the new Collective Bargaining Agreement is a new playoff format,…

The Philadelphia Phillies are back in the postseason for the first time in 11 years and according to the oddsmakers, they've got a decent chance of extending the party past the Wild Card Round. They may be underdogs against the St. Louis Cardinals in their three-game series in the Gateway City this weekend, but we're talking about slight margins…

The Philadelphia Phillies are in the playoffs for the first time in a decade as they head to the midwest to face off with the St. Cardinals at Busch Stadium. It is a best-of-3 series, and time to continue our MLB odds series with a Phillies-Cardinals prediction and pick. The Phillies finished 87-75 while going 40-41 on the road. It is their first…

The trade deadline has passed, and the race to the MLB postseason is heating up. But there are still some lingering questions about the future of a few of baseball's biggest stars and where they'll play in the future. Last winter, the lockout shook up free agency. Lucky for baseball fans, the labor strife is behind us, at least for now, and some…

To me, the St. Louis Cardinals are one of the 10 best teams in baseball entering the 2022 season. So it was surprising that their odds to win the World Series - 30/1 - are 13th in baseball as of January 18 on WynnBet. The teams ahead of the Cardinals are the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, New York Mets,…