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JUPITER, Fla. 鈥� OK, so we were wrong about the last No. 3.

Really, Dylan Carlson is one of the bigger busts in recent Cardinals history. But there鈥檚 a new No. 3 in spring training 鈥� and he is intriguing in a different way than the erstwhile 鈥渨hat-if鈥� outfielder.

JUPITER, Fla. 鈥� Coming off recent seasons limited by injury, including 2025, how Cardinals pitching prospect Tink Hence hopes for his career trajectory is clear.

鈥淲hen I look in the mirror, I see a starter,鈥� Hence said.

JUPITER, Fla.聽鈥� Her Valentine was baseball.

She loved it. Lived it. As a teenager, she played second base聽鈥� not in softball, but hardball. And Yuki Matsushita grew up collecting cards (she cherished her Ken Griffey Jr.). She once saw the great Ichiro play in person聽鈥� in Japan, before he came to America. Her grandfather was a famous Japanese amateur player. And her father, when he wasn鈥檛 working his day job at the United Nations, would coach baseball. He鈥檇 umpire games, too.

Chaim Bloom, the 最新杏吧原创 Cardinals' president of baseball operations, touched on many topics Friday as he met with the media via Zoom.

Bloom discussed the search for outside help, whether Thomas Saggese can play the outfield, JJ Wetherholt, Joshua Baez and interpreting spring training results.

ST. LOUIS 鈥� The parent company of the FanDuel Sports Network could lay off over two dozen employees and said Friday it plans to close its office in Ballpark Village.

Main Street Sports Group's chief human resources officer sent a Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notification to state and local officials Friday that said the first layoffs will occur over two weeks starting April 14. It lists 25 affected positions.

JUPITER, Fla.聽鈥� What Riley O鈥橞rien learned this past season about the nerves he felt as the late innings of a close game and his assignment approached was not to corral the butterflies at all but let them flutter away because he could count on one place they鈥檇 calm.

鈥淥nce I got on the mound, it just felt like pitching,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 definitely a mentality thing as the game went by, inning by inning, into the late situations, it鈥檚 tough to keep the nerves under control. Knowing their going to be there you can just fight it or trust when I get on the mound 鈥� on the mound I鈥檝e never been nervous. It鈥檚 going to be fine. The mound is almost a safety net for nerves. I get there, and I鈥檓 good.鈥�

最新杏吧原创 Cardinals manager Oli Marmol said Friday that the Cardinals may be contenders sooner rather than later and that top prospect JJ Wetherholt is 'very close' to making the majors.

Marmol participated in a wide-ranging interview from Florida, talking about what he expects from various players and the team as a whole. Below is a selection of video clips.

JUPITER, Fla. 鈥� As soon as Kyle Leahy felt his new off-speed pitch that he worked on over the winter leave his hand when he threw it against teammate Pedro Pages during a session of live batting practice on Friday at the Cardinals complex, the Cardinals right-hander knew 鈥渋t was a good one.鈥�

Pages鈥� reaction proved it.

This is an excerpt from the Post-Dispatch's weekly baseball newsletter, The Write Fielder, that launched a year ago.

JUPITER, Fla. 鈥� An avid player of the video game 鈥淢LB The Show,鈥� yes, of course, outfielder Nelson Velazquez has played as himself and, in one mode, controlled his way out of the minors and into a successful career slugging through the majors.

JUPITER, Fla.聽鈥斅燗 winter of shipping out All-Stars, shedding payroll, and bringing a swift, decisive end to an era has deposited the Cardinals at a new beginning this spring training, where the renovations on the roster go deeper than those on the buildings, right down to the roots.

Or, at least that鈥檚 the blueprint.

JUPITER, Fla.聽鈥� Around the Cardinals practice fields, there are as many iPads as shin and elbow pads. Sensors track data like Victor Scott II tracking down a ball at the track. Some Cardinals wear odd-looking, tight-fitting tank-tops over their jerseys that monitor their movement. And even some of the pitching mounds themselves double as devices to collect data.

Welcome to Chaim Bloom鈥檚 first spring training.