NASHVILLE, Tenn. • Yadi. The beloved Cardinals catcher, the name of, approximately, 337,000 St. Louis pets, the subject of my favorite Post-Dispatch headline ever, after his NLCS Game 7 homer: “Yadi! Yadi! Yadi!” (no offense to the Ron Gant-inspired playoff headline from 1996: “Da Do Ron Ron!”)
Yadier Molina has been on my mind. Here at the winter meetings, he’s been directly or indirectly attached to some news, be it his social media comments about the front office, a tidbit about Johnny Cueto or the talks I had Wednesday with his manager and general manager about Yadi’s innings count.