Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak doesn’t deem it prudent to inject himself into the sensitive nature of discussions between major league owners and the players’ association relative to the start of a baseball season. But he is happy to review the continuing progress of reliever Jordan Hicks
Hicks, who probably would have been out until at least the All-Star break — there won’t be one of those this year — after undergoing Tommy John surgery on his right elbow last June, now could be back within a short time from the start of a reconfigured season.