Monday is August 31st. Yes, the trade deadline.
Recently Mark Saxon, Cardinals reporter for The Athletic, spoke with a distracted John Mozeliak about what to expect with trade season suddenly upon them. When asked “how focused” Cardinals President of Baseball Operations was on the deadline, Mozeliak answered, “not really”. “Candidly,” he explained, “the timing of it is not ideal for us, as we start to unwind people coming off of COVID back onto the roster.”
The Cardinals are still facing a 40-man roster crisis, precipitated by the COVID outbreak and the compressed schedule that resulted.