There's being fashionably late to an event, and then there's the St. Louis Cardinals' decision to finally prioritize swing-and-miss stuff after the lights were off and everyone had gone home.
The Cardinals have finally awakened to the pitching revolution and learned that pitching to contact no longer works in the modern iteration of baseball. Velocity and spin are the name of the game, and it was clear in the Cardinals' first draft under new president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom that the team has fully bought into this model.
However, the Cardinals' longtime strategy of taking pitch-to-contact hurlers continues to leave an imprint on the organization.