It’s now February. In a normal year pitchers and catchers would report in two weeks and Spring Training games would be on the horizon at the end of the month. Instead, we still don’t know when the lockout would end and the chance of having the season delayed for a third straight year seems high. Still, the start of February is a good occasion for looking at the state of the NL Central and the St. Louis Cardinals’ place in it.
There will surely be a flurry of activity in the free agent market when the lockout ends, but many players have already signed contracts.