CARLSBAD, Calif. • With no single, glaring hole on their roster and yet at least one significant, defining need — a return to the playoffs — the Cardinals arrived at a sun-swept Southern California retreat about to embark on a holistic approach to this offseason.
In a marketplace that can fulfill many of their wishes, the Cardinals are looking across the roster for upgrades, wherever they can find them, as a way to achieve personnel growth.
“We return basically the team we had, more or less,” general manager Michael Girsch said, then listed the three departing free agents, Tyson Ross, Matt Adams and Bud Norris.