We’re past the festivity of the holidays and now we’ve entered the cruel, cold winter months before baseball comes back. I can think of no better way to warm up than with a retrospective of the 1984-1985 Cardinals off-season (though a Nolan Arrenado deal would also work). Tell me, can you feel it? Tell me, can you feel it? Tell me, can you feel it? Burning, burning, burning... the heat is on.
The 1984 Season
The 1984 season wasn’t exactly a disaster for the Cardinals so much as it was aggressively mediocre.