Clockwise from UL: Jeremiah Graham, Derek Shore, Ryan Finkelstein, Alex Staab, Paul Ivice, Cooper Deck, Brett Barnett
With the St. Louis Cardinals four full-season minor league clubs having officially taken the fields for the first time in 2018 this past Thursday evening, April 5, 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 actually at the games!
Our writers live in the cities where their Cardinals affiliate clubs are located and work as 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.
No reason to settle for less
Our 2018 reporters for the Cardinals’ four full-season clubs are experienced reporters and writers – Jeremiah Graham for Triple-A Memphis, Derek Shore at Double-A Springfield, Ryan Finkelstein covering A-Advanced Palm Beach and Alex Staab at Class-A Peoria. All except Shore, who also covers prospects in general, are new to the team this year.
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 – far 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 will return on Tuesday, April 10, available exclusively to TCN members on the following schedule.
- Tuesday: Peoria Chiefs Notebook
- Wednesday: Palm Beach Cardinals Notebook
- Thursday: Springfield Cardinals Notebook
- Friday: Memphis Redbirds Notebook
There’s more!
Once short-season ball begins in mid-June, our local reporters in State College, Johnson City and in the Gulf Coast League 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.
Their reports will first appear in late June on this schedule.
- Saturday: State College Spikes Notebook by Cooper Deck
- Sunday: Johnson City Cardinals Notebook by Brett Barnett
- Monday: Gulf Coast League Cardinals Notebook by Paul Ivice
Every game recapped daily
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 Leonda Markee along with Marilyn Green and Josey Curtis, 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 2018 First-Year Player Draft, TCN draft analyst Scott Schook will provide his commentary on the newest Cardinals.
Updated prospect rankings
Also back for 2018 will be our popular Monthly Cardinals Prospect List Updates, again 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.
As always, TCN’s publisher and editor Brian Walton will log extensive travel miles crisscrossing the system this season. It began in January with Instructional League camp and Winter Warm-Up, then spring training and will continue to extended spring training and Palm Beach in a few weeks, to fall ball in the Arizona Fall League and the Cardinals full- and short-season clubs in between!
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For roster and player information
The team rosters here at The Cardinal Nation are up-to-date. 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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