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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1781580" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ben-frederickson/benfred-tired-cardinals-talking-points-wont-sell-with-another-ho-hum-trade-deadline/article_55c2f5b4-cc6e-5e78-be9b-8a93c9f2bf6e.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/Ben%20Frederickson" target="_blank">Ben Frederickson</a></p><p>There’s time.</p><p>Maybe by the hour this newspaper hits your doorstep, the Cardinals front office will have hammered question marks into exclamation points.</p><p>Or maybe president of baseball operations John Mozeliak and his fellow decision-makers will wait and debate until the last moment before Tuesday’s 5 p.m. trade deadline to improve first-year manager Oliver Marmol’s shot at winning the division and more.</p><p>Or maybe this deadline will come to be defined by shrewd moves that don’t get celebrated much at first, but look brilliant later. Something similar to last season’s recruitment of seemingly washed up starters who helped pull a sinking team into a there-and-gone postseason appearance. But, you know, better. Bolder. Not just swapping a utility infielder for a Class-AAA reliever, like Saturday's move.</p><p></p><p>There’s time.</p><p></p><p>But if yet another ho-hum or only slightly better trade deadline comes and goes — as has been the case since 2015 — and this front office again finds itself trying to spin sticking with the status quo to fans who are forgetting what deep playoff runs feel like, the talking points are going to sell worse than Brewers jerseys at the Cardinals team store.</p><p>You know the go-to lines.</p><p>Let’s go ahead and get out in front of the worst.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1781580, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ben-frederickson/benfred-tired-cardinals-talking-points-wont-sell-with-another-ho-hum-trade-deadline/article_55c2f5b4-cc6e-5e78-be9b-8a93c9f2bf6e.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/Ben%20Frederickson']Ben Frederickson[/URL] There’s time. Maybe by the hour this newspaper hits your doorstep, the Cardinals front office will have hammered question marks into exclamation points. Or maybe president of baseball operations John Mozeliak and his fellow decision-makers will wait and debate until the last moment before Tuesday’s 5 p.m. trade deadline to improve first-year manager Oliver Marmol’s shot at winning the division and more. Or maybe this deadline will come to be defined by shrewd moves that don’t get celebrated much at first, but look brilliant later. Something similar to last season’s recruitment of seemingly washed up starters who helped pull a sinking team into a there-and-gone postseason appearance. But, you know, better. Bolder. Not just swapping a utility infielder for a Class-AAA reliever, like Saturday's move. There’s time. But if yet another ho-hum or only slightly better trade deadline comes and goes — as has been the case since 2015 — and this front office again finds itself trying to spin sticking with the status quo to fans who are forgetting what deep playoff runs feel like, the talking points are going to sell worse than Brewers jerseys at the Cardinals team store. You know the go-to lines. Let’s go ahead and get out in front of the worst. [/QUOTE]
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