Tuesday was Media Day at AutoZone Park for the reigning Pacific Coast League champion Memphis Redbirds. And some of the players who helped win that title were back; others likely will be.

The only constant in minor league baseball, after all, is the ever-changing roster. Pitcher Jack Flaherty, 22, was ticketed to begin the season with the Triple-A Redbirds. But when the Cardinals placed veteran Adam Wainwright on the disabled list with a hamstring injury, that opened a starting role for Flaherty; he was slated to get the ball Tuesday night, April 3, at Milwaukee.

2. Tubby May Land at Alma Mater High Point - Monday, March 26, 2018

For a change, the breaking news isn’t about Penny Hardaway getting a new job. This time, it might be Tubby Smith.

Hardaway, of course, made the headlines last week when the University of Memphis, as expected, hired him to replace Smith.

3. The Redbirds’ Dream Season is Not Being Duplicated in St. Louis - Wednesday, July 19, 2017

On Monday, July 17, in Oklahoma City, the Memphis Redbirds pulled off their third win in their last at-bat as Patrick Wisdom hit a ninth-inning home run in a 5-3 victory. It was their seventh straight win and their 15th in their last 17 games.

4. Cardinals Conceding Nothing to Anyone in 2017 - Thursday, April 6, 2017

The Chicago Cubs made history in 2016 by winning the World Series and breaking a 108-year draught. The St. Louis Cardinals made a little minor history by missing the playoffs after getting there five straight years and six of the last seven seasons.

5. Fans Fill AutoZone Park for 'Battle of the Birds' - Friday, March 31, 2017

During batting practice Thursday afternoon at AutoZone Park, new Redbirds manager Stubby Clapp looked up at a clear blue sky.

“We got the Kissell Dome today,” Clapp said, referring to the late and beloved St. Louis Cardinals field instructor George Kissell.

6. Cardinals Pick Martinez to Pitch on Opening Night vs. Cubs - Thursday, March 23, 2017

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) – The St. Louis Cardinals have picked Carlos Martinez to start on opening night against the World Series champion Chicago Cubs.

7. St. Louis Cardinals To Play Redbirds in March 30 Game - Saturday, September 10, 2016

The St. Louis Cardinals will play the Memphis Redbirds, their Triple-A club, in a March 30, 2017, exhibition game at AutoZone Park. The 2017 season will mark the 20th year of the teams’ affiliation.

8. St. Louis Cardinals To Play Redbirds in March 30 Game - Friday, September 9, 2016

The St. Louis Cardinals will play the Memphis Redbirds, their Triple-A club, in a March 30, 2017, exhibition game at AutoZone Park. The 2017 season will mark the 20th year of the teams’ affiliation.

9. Southern Yankee - Saturday, April 16, 2016

To best understand another man’s baseball passion, you must first understand his baseball pain. So if you hope to truly understand Peter B. Freund, new majority owner of the Memphis Redbirds, you must travel back to his youth.

10. Sports Notebook: Cardinals Fall in Opener, Tigers Hold First Football Scrimmage - Monday, April 4, 2016

The next run the St. Louis Cardinals score in 2016 will be their first. Opening the season on Sunday, April 3, in Pittsburgh the Cardinals dropped a 4-0 decision to the Pirates and struck out 14 times.

11. SPORTS NOTEBOOK: Cardinals Fall in Opener; Tigers Hold First Football Scrimmage - Monday, April 4, 2016

The next run the St. Louis Cardinals score in 2016 will be their first. Opening the season on Sunday, April 3, in Pittsburgh the Cardinals dropped a 4-0 decision to the Pirates and struck out 14 times.

12. Sports Notebook: Memphis, UT Vols Shut out of NCAA Tourney; Grizz Keep Grinding; Waino Bullish on Cards - Monday, March 14, 2016

The University of Memphis won two American Athletic Conference Tournament games but lost to Connecticut for a third time this season in Sunday’s title game. The Tigers were close enough to the Big Dance to hear the music and smell the punch, but nowhere close to getting an at-large invitation.

13. Sports Notebook: Tigers End With Win, Suns Beat Grizzlies - Monday, March 7, 2016

A laugher. The University of Memphis basketball team hasn’t had many of those this season, but they got one to end the American Athletic Conference schedule with an 83-53 victory at East Carolina.

14. Times Are Good. Try To Enjoy it, Memphis. - Friday, October 2, 2015

Someday, Vince Carter is going to be in basketball’s Hall of Fame. But recently, he was all about that college football.

Carter was at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium to see the University of Memphis win a wild shootout over Cincinnati in an ESPN Thursday night game. Last season, he went to Oxford and saw Ole Miss upset Alabama.

15. Redbirds Manager 'Taking Notes' As Cardinals Drive Toward Division Title - Friday, September 25, 2015

If his business was something other than baseball, first-year Memphis Redbirds manager Mike Shildt might be at conference somewhere, shuttling from one hotel ballroom to another, listening to speakers and participating in workshops.

16. Memphis Redbirds' Winning Record Doesn't Extend to Attendance - Friday, June 26, 2015

The Memphis Redbirds are running last in the 16-team Pacific Coast League’s attendance race; the St. Louis Cardinals own the best record in the 30-team on-field competition run by Major League Baseball.

17. Redbirds Cooney Eager for Next Chance With Cardinals - Monday, June 8, 2015

His fastball does not crackle and pop. Memphis Redbirds lefthander Tim Cooney does not test radar guns with triple-digit readings or even mid-90s readings.

But going into his scheduled start on Sunday, June 7, at Iowa, Cooney was coming off a complete-game shutout over Las Vegas at AutoZone Park in which he had leaned harder on his fastball and the results were again positive.

18. The Joy of Tony Allen; Inflategate Worse Than Deflategate - Friday, May 8, 2015

Wading in with a few quick takes …

If I had the money and the inclination to open up a bar on Beale Street, the name is set: One-Eyed Charlie.

Mike Conley’s masked-man performance in Game 2 as the Grizzlies defeated Golden State to even their Western Conference playoff series at 1-1 now stands atop the list of true grit-n-grind moments. And for the record, playing point guard with a broken face > than pitching with a bloody sock.

19. Martinez Pitching for Himself, and for Taveras - Friday, February 20, 2015

Carlos Martinez’s English isn’t very good. But you don’t need a translator to communicate the raw facts.

20. Cardinals’ Influence Brings Change to Redbirds - Friday, September 26, 2014

You don’t have to be in uniform to get cut from the team. Several folks working for the Memphis Redbirds found that out a few days ago.

Multiple sources said several people lost their jobs, just as the Redbirds’ contract with management company Global Spectrum is expiring at the end of September. The Redbirds, of course, were purchased by their parent St. Louis Cardinals as part of the deal that had the city buying AutoZone Park and leasing it back to the Cardinals on a 17-year term.

21. Cardinals Finding Way Back to Playoffs - Friday, September 12, 2014

Everyone always says the expectations are highest in their clubhouse. But when the St. Louis Cardinals say it, well, it has a certain depth. The past decade has seen seven playoff trips and two World Series championships. And this season, the Cardinals are hunting their fourth straight Red October.

22. Tommy John Surgery Growing More Common - Friday, July 11, 2014

Envision a baseball board game with dice and a spinner in which players try to go from Little League to pitching and winning Game 7 of the World Series.

Let’s call our fictional game “Bringing the Heat.” One can imagine positive squares where players learn “you just struck out 12 in a game, move ahead two spaces” or “you just had your fastball clocked at 94 MPH as a junior in high school, move ahead three spaces.”

23. Motte Looks to Regain Form in Redbirds Rehab Assignment - Friday, May 16, 2014

When St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jason Motte learned he had to have the elbow ligament replacement procedure commonly known as Tommy John Surgery, he didn’t ask, “Why me?”

24. Cardinals Expect ‘Good Things’ to Happen Again - Friday, April 4, 2014

At grantland.com, the writer said the St. Louis Cardinals have even more depth than last year’s team, but then he went on to pick the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the World Series.

25. Cardinal Way Has St. Louis Back in Fall Classic - Friday, October 25, 2013

From 2002-2006, the St. Louis Cardinals had a farm director named Bruce Manno. He was a guy who had his own ideas on how things should be done. One of them was to require that all Cardinal minor-league players – from Rookie ball to Triple-A Memphis – wear their pants pulled up to their knees so their stirrup socks would show.

26. Redbirds Proving Key Role in ‘Cardinal Way’ - Tuesday, October 15, 2013

The St. Louis Cardinals had just wrapped up one playoff series and were headed to the National League Championship Series with a roster mainly comprised of homegrown players.

There was rookie pitcher Michael Wacha, who had flirted with no-hitters in the regular season and in the NL Division Series. There was first baseman Matt “Big City” Adams, who stepped into the void created by Allen Craig’s foot injury. And there was 23-year-old Trevor Rosenthal, who was thrust into that all-important closer’s role late in the season.

27. Wacha Handling Latest Example Of Pitcher Care - Friday, June 21, 2013

A few days ago, when the St. Louis Cardinals optioned young Michael Wacha back to Memphis, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny did not utter some of baseball’s most frightening names.

28. More Than Pujols Can Say - Friday, October 26, 2012

When manager Tony La Russa retired and slugger Albert Pujols went panning for gold in California, there was no reason to expect the St. Louis Cardinals’ 2012 season would stop just a game short of the World Series.