Some called St. Louis Cardinals General Manager John Mozeliak to task for a four-year deal that produced value only in its first half. The only problem with this last analysis is, that seems precisely what Mo planned for with the contract penned before the 2014 campaign.
I’m not fawning over the Jhonny Peralta deal without critique. For there was a flaw with the contract, though not in its creation but in its execution.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
When the Cardinals went all-in with Peralta as a free agent, inking him to a four-year, $53M deal, they had a serious deficiency at shortstop.