Clockwise from upper right – Luke Kotcher, Kendall Clark, Kinsley Reliford, Alex Hill, Melek Robinson
With the St. Louis Cardinals four full-season minor league clubs having officially taken the fields Thursday evening, April 6 for the first time in 2023, The Cardinal Nation is bringing you along via our local reporting coverage that will continue all season and into the fall.
Every day is Minor League Day here! As we have for well over a decade, TCN remains your one-stop home for St. Louis Cardinals system-wide information – headlined by a team of reporters who are working at the games!
Our writers live in the cities where their Cardinals affiliate clubs are located and are credentialed media at their local ballparks. They share their first-hand insight with members on an immediate basis for breaking news and on a regular schedule for in-depth reports.
Our 2023 reporters for the Cardinals’ four full-season clubs are experienced reporters and writers – Melek Robinson for Triple-A Memphis, Alex Hill at Double-A Springfield, Kinsley Reliford covering A-Advanced Peoria and Kendall Clark at Class-A Palm Beach. You can read more about all four here.
Each week, The Cardinal Nation members can read locally sourced team-centric notebooks. Our reporters will give you the scoop directly from the ballpark on what is happening with their club: player movement, role changes, injuries, who is hot and not and more – going beyond what you can learn from simply reading box scores and following tweets and blog posts.
With the start of full-season ball, weekly eyewitness reports from our minor league correspondents have begun and are available exclusively to TCN members on the following schedule.
- Tuesday: Palm Beach Cardinals Notebook by Kendall Clark
- Wednesday: Peoria Chiefs Notebook by Kinsley Reliford
- Thursday: Springfield Cardinals Notebook by Alex Hill
- Friday: Memphis Redbirds Notebook by Melek Robinson
There’s more!
Once short-season ball begins in late June, our local reporter in the Florida Complex League, Paul Ivice, will again kick into gear as well, giving you, the subscriber, unequalled end-to-end first-hand coverage of the Cardinals system here in the US. We will also have weekly in-depth reports on the 2022 Dominican Summer League Cardinals, written by TCN veteran Leonda Markee.
Every game recapped each morning
Of course, you don’t have to wait a week to find out what is happening across the organization. Each morning, our minor league notebooks, recapping all the scores and results around the entire Cardinals system, are again being made available to readers.
Written by long-time TCN staffer Marilyn Green and Luke Kotcher, they highlight the previous day’s action and preview the upcoming starting pitchers every morning all season long.
These daily reports are always free.
As player movement and injuries occur, The Cardinal Nation will report on them immediately – not only with the basic information, but also the implications to the players and rosters.
Draft coverage continues
Leading up to and following the July 17-19 First-Year Player Draft, TCN will deliver commentary on the newest Cardinals and those who might be.
Updated prospect rankings
Also back for 2023 will be our popular Monthly Cardinals Prospect List Updates, exclusively for TCN members. The top risers and fallers in the organization will be analyzed each month during the season, along with the naming of our system-wide Pitchers and Players of the Month. The latter is entirely results-based without consideration of prospect status.
As always, TCN’s publisher and editor Brian Walton will crisscross the system this season. It began with spring training and will continue to extended spring training/Florida Complex League to fall ball in the Arizona Fall League and the Cardinals full- and short-season clubs in between!
Get your Cardinals minor league information from the team that sets the standard for end-to-end, first-hand coverage of the entire organization. To read more about The Cardinal Nation’s staff members, click here.
For roster and player information
The team rosters here at The Cardinal Nation are kept up to date daily. To access them, click on “ROSTERS/PLAYERS/MOVES” located on the red menu bar on the left of the page beneath The Cardinal Nation site logo.
To see the Cardinals’ entire system by level and position on one page along with every player transaction for every club all year long, check out the always current Roster Matrix at The Cardinal Nation. It has been updated for the regular season and is accessible from the same menu as the team rosters.
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