The St. Louis Cardinals have a lot of players who are right in the middle of contracts or are right at the beginning or end of their careers on the 2020 roster. In the past three years, there have been extensions given out almost every spring training and it’s not a stretch to expect this spring to be any different.
Miles Mikolas, Matt Carpenter, Paul Goldschmidt, Paul DeJong, and more have received extensions during spring in the past few years.
Those extensions may not look that great at the moment, but as far as timing goes for when to extend players, spring training seems like a good time to do so.