I’m not sure who coined the term “MoSpeak,” though I’m pretty certain it was on this website. But it’s come to mean the measured, political way GM turned President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak has of talking about the club, often without revealing much at all.
I consider myself fluent in MoSpeak. The slightest shift in tone or word choice can signal a massive shift in organizational philosophy. But there was nothing “slight” in the shift in rhetoric from the Cardinals Front Office over the course of the last week.
Last Monday, Mo told Rick Hummel of the P-D that “it’s a bit premature to hit the panic button.