Brenden Schaeffer
Sports Reporter
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Brenden has covered the Cardinals for KMOV.com since 2016.
Since graduating from the University of Missouri in 2016, Brenden Schaeffer has covered the Cardinals as a writer for KMOV.com
Brenden grew up in St. Charles and attended Wentzville Holt High School. He enjoys disc golf, bowling and trying out new restaurants with his wife, Emily.
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At the end of a season to forget, the festivities surrounding the final game of the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals season were focused on a career worth remembering.
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The fans that stuck around to see the latter innings of the blowout were treated to Wainwright taking a pair of vicious hacks against Reds starter Brandon Williamson.
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The Cardinals placed Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras on the 10-day injured list Friday, effectively ending their respective seasons.
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It was a storybook moment on Monday at Busch Stadium as Adam Wainwright finally captured that elusive 200th win in front of an adoring and appreciative crowd—but was it also the final chapter in the story of Waino’s big-league playing career?
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In his first start with 200 wins within his reach, Wainwright grabbed the milestone by delivering his best performance of the season, shutting out the Brewers across seven innings in a 1-0 Cardinals’ win Monday night.
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Gallegos is dealing with right rotator cuff tendonitis that will effectively end his season.
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For those who have followed along with the explanations from the Cardinals and John Mozeliak regarding the struggles of the team this season, it comes as no surprise. But Mozeliak confirmed in a press conference Friday afternoon at Busch Stadium that Cardinals manager Oli Marmol would be retained in the role for the 2024 season.
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The Cardinals led wire-to-wire, taking a 3-2 lead upon Wainwright’s exit and expanding upon it with late insurance tallies to defeat the Orioles 5-2, securing win No. 199 for their veteran starter.
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The Blues shared via press release that Krug will be re-evaluated on October 1
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A 10th-inning sequence that saw Pittsburgh score three times without earning a hit that reached an outfielder’s glove doused cold waters on the Cardinals’ hopes of a third consecutive walk-off win. The Pirates defeated the Cardinals 4-2.
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The Cardinals have added some roster reinforcements heading into their weekend series against the Pirates at Busch Stadium—and this time, it’s genuinely key pieces rejoining the active roster.
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With Matt Carpenter in the opposing lineup for the Padres, Wainwright was determined to avoid one particular outcome against his former teammate.
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Taylor Motter will start at second base for the Cardinals, batting eighth, while Willson Contreras serves as the designated hitter.
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After initially expecting Matthew Liberatore to be delayed by only a couple of days due to back tightness, the Cardinals placed the left-handed starter on the injured list Tuesday, extending a recent stretch of unfortunate injury trends for the team.
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Cardinals manager Oli Marmol told reporters Sunday morning that left-handed pitcher Drew Rom will start for St. Louis on Monday in Pittsburgh.
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After wearing it on the mound for the Cardinals in a lopsided loss Friday night, James Naile makes a familiar trek Saturday as the Cardinals look to reinforce the bullpen with a fresh arm.
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The Cardinals promoted Winn ahead of Friday’s game knowing he will not exceed the threshold to maintain his rookie eligibility for 2024.
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The Cardinals stopped kicking the can down the road with Nolan Gorman’s lower back troubles Thursday, placing the slugging infielder on the injured list.
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If Thursday was a sign of things to come, they might just have to relabel the swap as the Matthew Liberatore trade.
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Though it took some time for him to show up in this form, the Cardinals are hoping to see the current version of Steven Matz stick around for a while.
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Thursday’s matinee between the Orioles and Blue Jays in Toronto featured a scene that would have seemed pretty confusing to Cardinals fans before the events immediately preceding Tuesday’s MLB trade deadline.
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The Cardinals have traded starting pitcher Jack Flaherty to the Baltimore Orioles just before the trade deadline, according to reports.
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The Cardinals announced Tuesday that Brendan Donovan will undergo season-ending surgery to address the persistent soreness in his throwing arm that has held the utility ace out of defensive duties in recent weeks.
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After twice trading with the Blue Jays in recent days, the Cardinals have finalized another deal with Toronto—one that will mean saying goodbye to a longtime fixture of the St. Louis infield.
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The St. Louis Cardinals jumped into the trade deadline frenzy with fury Sunday afternoon, reportedly swinging multiple trades that will contribute to a completely reworked roster for the stretch run of the 2023 season.
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As rumors have swirled in recent days about the possibility of the Cardinals trading their franchise cornerstone third baseman to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Mozeliak has seemingly leaned on his words from nearly two weeks ago to do all of his talking on the subject.
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Mikolas denied any intent in plunking Happ with the pitch, insisting that he was merely aiming to pitch aggressively inside against the Cubs’ left-handed hitter.
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Is there anything Montgomery could do on the Busch Stadium mound Friday night that boosts his trade value enough to counteract the risk of something flukey, like another hamstring scare, tanking his value altogether?
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After being tended to by the athletic training staff on the field, blood streaming from his head, Contreras left the game with what the team later called a “scalp laceration.”
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Wainwright, who is still two wins short of 200 career MLB wins, has not pitched since July 4 in Miami.
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The move frees up the 40-man roster spot necessary for the return of Tyler O’Neill, who has been on the 60-day injured list. The Cardinals activated O’Neill Thursday, the team announced.
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Does there come a point in an unexpected winning streak where a team who had quite literally just declared itself as a seller should look to--borrowing a phrase from this team’s top baseball operations executive, here--put the toothpaste back in the tube on that whole deal?
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Following an afternoon that featured the Cardinals manager and president of baseball operations publicly throwing their weight behind virtually every outfielder on the team but him, Carlson played a sturdy defensive center field and paced the offense from the leadoff spot Monday.
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Cabrera had been a fixture of the St. Louis bullpen since 2019 after joining the Cardinals organization in a July 2018 trade deadline deal that sent Tommy Pham to Tampa Bay.
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In what could conceivably have been his final home start at Busch Stadium, Jack Flaherty gave the Cardinals six strong innings while the lineup rapped out 13 hits in an 8-4 win over the Nationals.
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The Cardinals will carry three catchers for the foreseeable future, with Knizner joining Willson Contreras and Ivan Herrera.
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With the Cardinals leading 1-0, the contest will resume Saturday afternoon at 1:15 p.m. to lead off a split doubleheader at Busch Stadium.
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Mathews’ eyebrow-raising pitch count came in a June 11 win over Texas in Game 2 of the Stanford Super Regional as the 22-year-old starter tossed a complete game to help push the Cardinal to an appearance in the College World Series.
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Davis compiled a .362/.489/.742 batting line (1.231 OPS) with 21 home runs and 74 RBIs in 278 plate appearances this season to earn second-team All-American honors.
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With the All-Star break looming after a weekend series on the South Side of Chicago, the Cardinals have opted to give the sore right wrist of utilityman Tommy Edman more time to heal up.
In a trend that has plagued the Cardinals for a number of years by this point, another promising young Cardinal pitcher is heading the wrong way on the Memphis shuttle after a disappointing stint in the bigs.
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As the Cardinals sink further into the abyss of the National League Central standings, the team placed multiple players on the injured list Wednesday, leading to a flurry of roster moves.
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Reports from Busch Stadium indicate that Donovan will head for imaging Friday evening to determine the severity of the situation.
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The MLB All-Star Game is slated for July 11 in Seattle.
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The Cardinals are hoping it’s not a serious setback for Nolan Arenado, but the star third baseman left Wednesday’s game with lower back tightness before the top of the sixth inning against the Astros.
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The Note entered the opening of the NHL Draft Wednesday night wielding three first-round picks as GM Doug Armstrong works to quickly retool the St. Louis roster.
Perhaps lost in the shuffle of the London Series excitement over the weekend was a report that the Cardinals’ primary closer is still not particularly close to rejoining the St. Louis bullpen.
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After a robust day on a rehab assignment, Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar is ready to return to the St. Louis lineup.
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In an unexpected move, the author of one of the greatest moments in the history of the St. Louis Cardinals has declined his induction into the team’s Hall of Fame.
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