It is being solidly reported that free agent Marcell Ozuna’s landing spots are down to the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals, his home for the last two years. Since the Cardinals and Ozuna are a better fit for each other, it is likely that the announcement of the righthander’s return to St. Louis, is imminent.
For a good chunk of the regular season, plus the early part of the off-season, Redbirds fans had all but written off seeing Ozuna in a birds-on-the-bat uniform in 2020. This was because the front office’s silence during the team’s 2019 division-championship winning campaign about an extension of Ozuna’s contract spoke volumes.