Right now, the 2021 St. Louis Cardinals would field a team without Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina. Both players are free agents at the end of the year and there is a possibility that they could both be told the team won’t resign them.
Things like these are always difficult. Wainwright and Molina have both been stalemates of the Cardinals and are engrained in the culture and history of the past 20 years. Waino is near the end of his road, but Molina has continually repeated that he wants to stay with the Cardinals for two more years.