When Major League Baseball returned to the field of play in July, the puzzle presented Mike Shildt’s staff for Cardinals training camp redux at Busch Stadium was how to get the maximum out of limited days, limited hours, limited coaches, limited group sizes, and all of it limited to one field and two bullpens.
Summer’s riddle now is spring’s dress rehearsal. There will just be more stages.
Shildt, his coaching staff, and Cardinals officials met multiple times last week on lengthy conference calls to script a variety of spring training plans, all for a camp they must expect opens Feb.