In the past decade or so the Cardinals have become enviably good at marketing their history, tradition, National League-leading 11 World Series championships, and, of course, bobbleheads to entice more than 3.4 million to Busch Stadium.
The front office would like to be as successful luring one.
Six years to the date that three-time MVP and franchise icon Albert Pujols spurned the Cardinals for a better offer from the Los Angeles Angels, Giancarlo Stanton, the reigning National League MVP, used his no-trade rights to veto a move Friday to the Cardinals. Stanton becomes the latest of the Cardinals’ high-profile pursuits to turn them down, joining Jason Heyward and David Price, just in recent winters.