Depending on what the Cardinals plan to share publicly in their end-of-season news conference Tuesday, we should get some sense of how the front office plans to work through a complicated challenge facing the construction of the 2020 team.
A third-base approach that proved sustainable through the previous three seasons betrayed the Cardinals in 2019. Since 2016, the team had not fielded one third baseman who logged more than 1,000 innings at the position. On top of that, the top-two players who combined to split the reps there changed every year.
Still, the Cardinals managed a respectable .