The St. Louis Cardinals start a new era of baseball with Chaim Bloom as the new President of Baseball Operations. However, according to Joel Reuter of Bleacher Report, the Cardinals’ projected Opening Day lineup appears to be more of the same.
Bleacher Report’s projected Cardinals Opening Day lineup is almost verbatim from 2025
The projected lineup for the 2026 lineup, from Reuter, is as follows: 2B Brendan Donovan, C Iván Herrera, LF Alec Burleson, 1B Willson Contreras, DH Nolan Gorman, 3B Nolan Arenado, RF Lars Nootbaar, SS Masyn Winn, CF Victor Scott II.