The Cardinals are kind of stumped as to why everyone thinks they are worse than the club that survived a grueling three-team race to win another National League Central title last season. After all, they feel like they're finally getting healthy and have a chance to be even better. "We won 100 games with half the people in the room that we have here," third baseman Matt Carpenter said as he stood in the team's Florida spring training clubhouse. The national perception is that the team's championship core -- namely, Adam Wainwright, 34, Matt Holliday, 36, and Yadier Molina, 33 -- is aging and the Cardinal Way is in jeopardy, with thinner-than-usual talent at the upper levels of the minor leagues.
2016 season preview: No. 7 St. Louis Cardinals
