Today, we are going to play a game of 3-dimensional chess. Ok, not really. I’m going to use the 3-dimensional chess metaphor to start down the road of anticipating the Cardinal’s strategic thinking in terms of talent acquisition. No, this isn’t going to be an article about the trade deadline (although it could be), but it may inform a little bit about what they might actually be looking to do. In playing 3-dimensional chess, we are looking at something a bit more complicated than “buyer” or “seller”. I’ll explain.

First, I want to describe 3 planning dimensions I think the Cardinals are operating on. There are likely more, but it would take a tome to corral them all. I’m going to focus on three that I expect to shift some as the management transition occurs over the next 90 days.

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