ST. LOUIS • As the Cardinals’ officials gathered Thursday for what’s become an annual unpacking of the season with the media, two time zones and one division away someone who used to sit on the dais and face those questions had something he wanted to say.
Tony La Russa, the Cardinals’ longtime manager and a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame for his dugout work here, had watched the Cardinals from afar – as a competitor, as a peer – and felt compelled to share some thoughts about the 2015 team and how “it passed every test.