Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak -- a veteran team-builder who has regularly used the offseason to ...

Few people in baseball have been around Paul Goldschmidt longer than Turner Ward, who managed the first baseman in the minors and was his hitting coach at two different spots in the majors.

That was Matt Holliday for $13 million. And if it sounds familiar, well, Paul Goldschmidt just endured his poorest season as a Cardinal in his age-36 campaign just as a long-term contract concluded.