As the Cardinals prepare for their annual Florida migration starting with Monday’s departure of moving trucks crammed full of baseball stuff, I find myself wondering about how one key piece of second-year manager Oli Marmol‘s lineup will return to St. Louis.
Last season, the Cardinals headed to camp pledging to use the designated hitter role to create more opportunities for internal options. They changed that plan on the fly by signing not one but two veteran hitters during spring training. Left-handed hitting Corey Dickerson became a league-average hitter who started slow and was not always healthy.