We’re still on hold while baseball’s lockout continues. That will likely be true until at least January. The St. Louis Cardinals had shifted their focus before the lockdown from starting pitching to relief pitching, with some offers out. One of those offers was almost certainly to Luis Garcia, the second half revelation that helped key their second half surge. He opted to sign with the Padres. There’s no way of knowing who else they were discussing but Derrick Goold name-dropped Ryan Tepera in his Steven Matz article and mentioned Colin McHugh as a potential fit in his tweet about said article.