CHICAGO — Before addressing the series of roster moves the Cardinals made official Saturday morning, hours before they played a doubleheader and their first game in 17 days, president of baseball operations John Mozeliak had a list of people he wanted to thank.
He thanked the coaching staff for their creativity and care in keeping the team together -- though they were all apart during two separate quarantines during the same outbreak of COVID-19. He thanked the commissioner's office for shepherding the Cardinals through 18 positive tests for the coronavirus and two separate lockdowns. He thanked doctors, experts, officials at the ballpark, clubhouse managers, equipment manager, travel execs, and then he got to the medical staff.