Whenever management fails to upgrade its talent for the stretch run, we ask the same question: How can team executives look their players in the eye after standing pat?
When the key players continually underachieve, aren’t they the ones trying to avert eye contact with the bosses?
So it goes for the Cardinals, whose management team failed to add more pitching before the trade deadline and whose top-paid players have mostly failed to perform to their previous levels.
The players can be miffed by management inactivity — including the failure to add another free agent (Dallas Keuchel!