Michael Girsch cleared out his closet Monday night for his annual pilgrimage to Jupiter, Fla. As the Cardinals’ general manager has done since he was promoted to assistant GM in 2011, he packed seven weeks’ worth of clothes to hold him over for all of spring training.
He then tossed a large suitcase and a medium one into his car Tuesday so that it could be loaded onto the team’s moving truck at Busch Stadium for the trip to Florida. He’ll take another suitcase and plenty of optimism with him Sunday when he boards his flight to Florida.