CINCINNATI — A complication for the Cardinals at the trade deadline was captured by the adjective John Mozeliak used to describe the roster’s challenge in the coming week and the pitching depth they’re not sure it will have.
“Yeah,” he said, “scary.”
The trade deadline came and went Monday afternoon with results that felt familiar for the Cardinals in a year that has been everything but. For the fifth consecutive season, the Cardinals did not play a significant role in baseball’s annual, buzzy midsummer swap meet. They advertised they would not be active and weren’t because of their roster issues coming out of the COVID-19 outbreak.