Not all rebuilds are created equal, and in the case of the St. Louis Cardinals, Chaim Bloom needs to tread lightly when considering truly tearing things down to the studs.
For every Houston Astros or Chicago Cubs situation, where the years of losing and faceless baseball in the name of building toward the future led to World Series championships, there are clubs like the Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Chicago White Sox that just seem to get stuck in an endless cycle of losing baseball. Heck, there are even situations like what the Baltimore Orioles find themselves in, where their exciting young core now sits with an uncertain future after failing to take the next step.