40-plus Cardinals players, 30-plus articles

Before spring training games had officially begun, there was only so much news to be shared from camp. Typically over the course of the first few weeks, individual player features are prevalent.

Seeing current articles getting down to reserves or perhaps players not likely to make the opening day roster challenged me. I decided to see how many of the 40-man roster players have been featured recently. I also threw in a few of the non-roster invitees (NRI).

Alas, I fell a bit short, though my search may not have been exhaustive enough. Still, if you did not read these articles the first time, they should continue to be topical and interesting today.

Writers and links follow. The writer’s name is the story link while the player’s name link is to his stats page at Baseball-Reference.com. When there were multiple articles available on a player, I selected only one, looking for diversity of voices.

Starters

Chris Carpenter – from Joe Strauss
Adam Wainwright – from Rob Rains
Jaime Garcia – from Jenifer Langosch
Kyle Lohse – from Joe Strauss
Jake Westbrook – from Associated Press
Brandon Dickson
Maikel Cleto
Shelby Miller (NRI) – from Kary Booher, Springfield News-Leader
Tyrell Jenkins (NRI) – from Rob Rains

Relievers

Jason Motte – from Derrick Goold
Kyle McClellan – from Rob Rains
J.C. Romero – from AP
Marc Rzepczynski – from Joe Strauss
Fernando Salas
Eduardo Sanchez
Lance Lynn – from B.J. Rains
Scott Linebrink (NRI) – from Rob Rains
Mitchell Boggs – from Jenifer Langosch
Adam Reifer
Adam Ottavino
Chuckie Fick
Sam Freeman

Catchers

Yadier Molina (If you need a link to a Molina story, I consider you to be hopeless!)
Tony Cruz – from Brian Stull, 101 Sports
Bryan Anderson – from Rob Rains
Cody Stanley (NRI) – from Derrick Goold

Infielders

Lance Berkman – from AP
Skip Schumaker – from David Villavicencio, MLB.com
Tyler Greene – from AP
Daniel Descalso – from Doug Vaughn, KMOV 4 (video)
Rafael Furcal – from Derrick Goold
Alex Cora (NRI) – from Jenifer Langosch
Pete Kozma
David FreeseRob Rains audio
Matt Carpenter – from Jenifer Langosch
Zack Cox
Mark Hamilton – from B.J. Rains
Matt Adams (NRI) – from B.J. Rains

Outfielders

Matt Holliday – from Joe Strauss
Carlos Beltran – from Rob Rains
Jon Jay – from Post-Dispatch
Allen Craig – from B.J. Rains
Erik Komatsu – from Jenifer Langosch
Adron Chambers
Shane Robinson

Legends

Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee – from Rob Rains
Red Schoendienst – Rob Rains (audio)

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