Last offseason, the St. Louis Cardinals made one addition to their Major League roster, signing reliever Phil Maton (who was pretty good!) on March 15. That was it.

Meanwhile, all of the buzz that the team might trade some of its veteran talent amounted to nothing. Even Nolan Arenado, who seemed like the most likely of those players to move, stayed put. (Not for lack of effort by the Cardinals, as Arenado used his no-trade clause to veto an agreement St. Louis had reached with Houston.) It turned out to be a very quiet winter.

That will very much not be the case this offseason. In fact, there may be no team more active than the Cardinals, led by new president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom (who has had two seasons with the organization now to assess matters and start rebuildin

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