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BenFred's 5: Shildt weighs in on baseball's sticky situation, and
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Ben Frederickson: No Pujols, No Molina, No Wainwright. No more
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BenFred: Inflated market, past whiffs should steer Cardinals away
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BenFred: Sinking rotation now the Cardinals' biggest concern
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BenFred: The Cardinals have 99 problems, but a self-created
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Cardinals' Brendan Donovan finishes third in National League
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BenFred: Rushed extension for Mizzou football coach Drinkwitz only
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BenFred: What happened to Paul Goldschmidt in September? The
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BenFred: A sinking Cardinals season touches a new low
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BenFred: Don't turn Wainwright's quest for 200 wins into bogeyman
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BenFred: These 3 non-shortstop free agents should get long, hard