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Mozeliak: Cardinals Are Not Trading Nolan Arenado – MLB Trade Rumors

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  1. Mozeliak: Cardinals Are Not Trading Nolan Arenado MLB Trade Rumors
  2. MLB trade rumors: Nolan Arenado doesn’t shoot down speculation; Cubs may keep Marcus Stroman, Cody Bellinger CBS Sports
  3. BenFred: Nolan Arenado’s trade-deadline comments seem to show cost of Cardinals’ ‘due diligence’ St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  4. Dodgers Rumors: Verlander, E-Rod, Singer, Keller, Cardinals, Scherzer, Canha, Pham MLB Trade Rumors
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Team USA World Baseball Classic score: Kyle Schwarber, Nolan Arenado power past Great Britain in WBC Game 1 – CBS Sports

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  1. Team USA World Baseball Classic score: Kyle Schwarber, Nolan Arenado power past Great Britain in WBC Game 1 CBS Sports
  2. Kyle Schwarber hits big home run for Team USA, José Alvarado gets final 3 outs in Venezuela win over the Dominican Republic – Phillies Nation Phillies Nation
  3. United States vs. Great Britain live stream: TV channel, how to watch For The Win
  4. World Baseball Classic score: Live updates as Kyle Schwarber homers USA into lead over Great Britain in Game 1 CBS Sports
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World Baseball Classic score: Kyle Schwarber, Nolan Arenado power Team USA past Great Britain in WBC Game 1 – CBS Sports

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  1. World Baseball Classic score: Kyle Schwarber, Nolan Arenado power Team USA past Great Britain in WBC Game 1 CBS Sports
  2. Kyle Schwarber hits big home run for Team USA, José Alvarado gets final 3 outs in Venezuela win over the Dominican Republic – Phillies Nation Phillies Nation
  3. United States vs. Great Britain live stream: TV channel, how to watch For The Win
  4. World Baseball Classic score: Live updates as Kyle Schwarber homers USA into lead over Great Britain in Game 1 CBS Sports
  5. USA vs. Great Britain final score, results: Paul Goldschmidt, Nolan Arenado lead Americans to opening victory Sporting News
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World Baseball Classic score: Kyle Schwarber, Nolan Arenado power Team USA past Great Britain in WBC Game 1 – CBS Sports

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  1. World Baseball Classic score: Kyle Schwarber, Nolan Arenado power Team USA past Great Britain in WBC Game 1 CBS Sports
  2. Kyle Schwarber hits big home run for Team USA, José Alvarado gets final 3 outs in Venezuela win over the Dominican Republic – Phillies Nation Phillies Nation
  3. United States vs. Great Britain live stream: TV channel, how to watch For The Win
  4. World Baseball Classic score: Live updates as Kyle Schwarber homers USA into lead over Great Britain in Game 1 CBS Sports
  5. Canada opens Classic vs. Great Britain (3 p.m., FS1) MLB.com
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2022 MLB Gold Glove winners: Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado, Dodgers’ Mookie Betts, 14 first-timers, more

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Major League Baseball’s awards season got underway a little earlier than usual this offseason as MLB and Rawlings announced the 2022 Gold Glove winners prior to Game 3 of the World Series on Tuesday night.

Per Major League Baseball, here’s the voting process: 

To determine the winners of the 18 defensive position Awards, each team’s manager and up to six coaches on his staff voted from a pool of qualified players in their League and could not vote for players from their own team. In 2013, Rawlings added the SABR Defensive Index™ (SDI) to the Rawlings Gold Glove Award selection process, which comprises approximately 25 percent of the overall selection total, with the managers’ and coaches’ votes continuing to carry the majority.

Rawlings added a new utility Gold Glove to honor multi-position players this year, giving us 10 Gold Glove winners in each league and 20 overall. The utility award winners were selected using a separate defensive formula.

Most notably, Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado won his 10th Gold Glove in his 10th MLB season this year, tying Ichiro Suzuki for the record to begin a career. Arenado’s 10 Gold Gloves also tie Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt for the second most ever at the hot corner, behind only Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson (16).

A record 14 players won their first career Gold Glove this season, shattering the previous record of 11 in 2020. Below are the 2022 Gold Gloves winners with each player’s number of career Gold Gloves in parentheses.

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Nolan Arenado Won’t Opt Out Of Cardinals Contract

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Nolan Arenado faced another opt-out decision this offseason, but just like last year, the star third baseman has decided to remain in St. Louis. Katie Woo of The Athletic reports that Arenado has informed the Cardinals he won’t exercise the opt-out clause in his contract, and he’ll now remain with the Cards and earn $144MM over the final five years of the deal.

Since Arenado’s 2021 numbers were a bit below his usual standard (.255/.312/.494 in 653 PA), passing on the opt-out last year wasn’t too shocking, yet there was some expectation that Arenado might be tempted to test the market coming off a better platform year.  The third baseman put himself into the MVP conversation in 2022 by hitting .293/.358/.533 with 30 home runs in 620 plate appearances, and he is again a Gold Glove finalist as he looks to win his 10th consecutive award.

Arenado turns 32 in April, potentially limiting his odds of adding much in the way of years to his current pact. However, it’s easy to see how he could have surpassed his current $28.8MM average annual value. Notably, fellow third baseman Anthony Rendon managed to secure an AAV of $35MM in his seven year/$245MM contract he signed with the Angels prior to the 2020 season, while Freddie Freeman’s six year, $162MM pact with the Dodgers last winter exceeds Arenado’s current deal in terms of both years and total value.

That said, Arenado’s $144MM is hardly a minor sum, and he has often spoke about his comfort level in St. Louis and his desire to remain a long-term piece of the Cardinals’ future. With this stability already in place, Arenado chose to pass on free agency, and he can now focus entirely on 2023 without the extra drama and uncertainty that follows even the names on the open market.

With Arenado’s decision now made, the Cards have checked another major task off their offseason to-do list, a few days after re-signing Adam Wainwright for the 2023 season. The Cardinals are expected to have significant room to make additions to their payroll this season, and not having to allocate additional resources to retaining Arenado should allow St. Louis to do more to address other areas of the roster. The starting rotation and outfield are possible target areas, as well as the obvious step of finding a catcher to replace retiring franchise stalwart Yadier Molina.

As The Athletic’s Nick Groke mentions, Arenado’s decision also keeps the Rockies committed to a significant financial obligation. As per the terms of the trade that sent Arenado from Colorado to St. Louis prior to the 2021 season, the Rockies owe the Cardinals $31.5MM to cover a portion of the third baseman’s salary —  $16MM next season, and then $5MM each year from 2024 to 2026. The $16MM slated for Arenado is more than the Rockies are paying any player on their 2023 payroll, except for Kris Bryant.

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Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado opting into remainder of contract: Source

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Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado has informed the organization he will be opting into the remainder of his five-year, $144 million contract, a league source told The Athletic on Saturday.

Arenado, who was traded to St. Louis from Colorado prior to the 2021 season, was facing his second and final opt-out clause in the deal. The Cardinals had expressed optimism throughout the 2022 season that the seven-time All-Star would return to St. Louis. After St. Louis was eliminated from the postseason, talks between the Cardinals and Arenado began to intensify. President of baseball operations John Mozeliak traveled to Southern California — where Arenado resides in the offseason — on Monday, and the two met to discuss the future of the organization.

Mozeliak expressed optimism the decision would be made in the near future.

“I’m optimistic this will have a positive resolution,” Mozeliak said during his end-of-season press conference Wednesday morning. “Very hopeful there is some resolution here shortly.”

Since being acquired by St. Louis, Arenado has notched back-to-back All-Star berths and is in the running for his 10th consecutive Gold Glove, which would tie him with Mike Schmidt for the second-most Gold Gloves by a third baseman all-time. The 31-year-old also compiled two consecutive seasons with at least 30 homers and 100 RBIs and is in the running for his fifth Silver Slugger award.

The Cardinals have now locked up the hot corner through the 2027 season with one of baseball’s most accomplished players. They have also crossed off their top two main priorities of the offseason. Arenado’s decision to remain with the club, along with Adam Wainwright returning for one final season, clears the way for Mozeliak to address four open coaching positions on the Cardinals staff, while also looking to boost the roster with an expected increased payroll for 2023.

“There’s obviously some needs,” Mozeliak said. “We’re going to have to address the catcher. You have to look at how we want to augment the offense, and … you’re always in need of pitching. So those will be our focuses as we enter the GM meetings and work our way up to winter meetings.”

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Postseason shrinkage continues for Cardinals offense in latest quick exit

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Lars Nootbaar led off the bottom of the first inning with a smoked single on an Aaron Nola fastball that sure looked more like a hard-earned double than a single and an error on Phillies centerfielder Brandon Marsh. Regardless, one of the fastest Cardinals was on second base first thing Saturday night, and the biggest postseason crowd in this stadium’s history was on its feet and whipping rally towels in a frenzy. Stranded.

Tommy Edman, who so rarely walks, worked a hard-earned one-out walk in the bottom of the third, clawing back from a 1-2 count in a seven-pitch showdown with Nola. Stranded.

Juan Yepez, after fouling off not one, not two, but three different Nola pitches — changeup, sinker, curveball — smacked the second sinker he saw to lead off the bottom of the fifth with a line-drive single to left field. Stranded.

Future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols, with one out in the bottom of the sixth, fouled off Nola’s first three pitches – sinker, changeup, fastball – before pushing a curveball into left field. Stranded.

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Corey Dickerson, with two outs in the bottom of the seventh and facing an o-2 count, chased the excellent Nola from the game with a single to center. Stranded.

Nootbaar in the bottom of the eighth worked a one-out walk on a seven-pitch at-bat against high-velocity Phillies reliever Jose Alvarado to bring up Pujols as the tying run. Pujols, with the massive billboard congratulating him on passing 700 career home runs looming in the night out beyond the ballpark, smashed a single down the left-field line off Seranthony Dominguez, the Phillies reliever inserted to face him, before a pinch-runner took his place. Two on. One out. National League MVP candidates Paul Goldschmidt up with National League MVP candidate Nolan Arenado on deck. Cardinals fans clap-clap-clapping their hands. Stranded.

Dickerson, with two outs and two strikes on him in the bottom of the ninth, flared a single to left against Zach Eflin. Molina, in the final at-bat of his career, singled to right field after falling behind 0-2. The future Hall of Famer wasn’t going out like that. But his Cardinals were. Stranded.

Time and time and time again the Cardinals’ offense continued its trend of failing to get the job done in the postseason, with this 2-0 loss to the Phillies in Game 2 of the National League Wild Card continuing a chill that dates back to when the Nationals swept the Cardinals out of the 2019 National League Championship Series.




Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto pumps his fist as St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado strikes out in the sixth inning during Game 2 of the National League wild card series at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022.



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Goldschmidt and Arenado combined to go 1-for-15 in this two-game series with six strikeouts. Goldschmidt’s final swinging strikeout came on a pitch he could not have possibly hit. Arenado’s final strikeout came on a pitch he usually crushes. The only time Goldschmidt got on base in this series was when he was hit by a pitch. The Cardinals’ No. 2 through No. 5 hitters combined to go three-for-30 with nine strikeouts in the two losses. The Cardinals went one-for-11 with runners in scoring position. Hitting coach Jeff Albert’s offense stranded 14 in 18 innings.

In hindsight, it was a good idea for president of baseball operations John Mozeliak to arrive at Thursday’s workout-day press conference carrying prepared remarks meant to capture how special of a regular season the Cardinals had just completed.

“As I look back at the 162, I certainly understand and recognize it’s just been a magical year for the St. Louis Cardinals,” Mozeliak said then. “When you think about all the different subplots we have gotten to enjoy, witness, be a part of. To have a season where Yadier Molina is retiring and then bringing back somebody like Albert Pujols to be a part of this, it’s been really special for everybody involved. It made for great memories. But now we are trying to create new memories. As we begin tomorrow, that’s what that’s all about. As special as 2022 has been, we hope to add to that. We hope to increase what that legacy looks like of this team.”

The page did not turn. The feel-good regular-season script flipped. A slide that started when All-Star closer Ryan Helsley’s middle finger stiffened in the ninth inning of Game 1 never stopped, and it was not a thinned bullpen that came to define this series.

It was an offense that totaled one extra-base hit in the series – Yepez’s pinch-hit, two-run homer in Game 1 – against dominant right-handed starters and a Phillies bullpen that was supposed to be a weak spot. The Cardinals scored in just two of the series’ 18 innings.

Before Game 1, the Cardinals had never before lost a postseason game in which they led by two runs entering the ninth, and they moved forward into Saturday’s Game 2 knowing they would need to create more runs to buy insurance for a thinned bullpen. They didn’t score, period. Bryce Harper’s solo homer against Miles Mikolas in the top of the second was the only run the Phillies needed, and they doubled it with Kyle Schwarber’s sacrifice fly in the fifth. The Saturday night shutout was the Cardinals’ 17th of the season.

The Cardinals had the higher seed in this series. They had home-field advantage, where they won more than 65% of their regular-season games in 2022. They, not the Phillies, were division winners.

This was the Cardinals’ series to win, and they lost it. They have now lost four out of their last five postseason series, and that’s not including last season’s one-game wild-card loss to the Dodgers. The Cardinals are 1-9 in their last 10 postseason games. No parade since 2011, for those keeping track.

Big questions loom after such a memorable regular season.

Cardinals manager Oli Marmol’s team is now one in transition. Molina and Pujols are off into retirement, and they are taking their clutch DNA with them. The team’s big bet on shortstop Paul DeJong’s resurgence did not work. The outfield that was supposed to star together — Tyler O’Neill, Harrison Bader, Dylan Carlson — saw only two of those players left on the team by the postseason, just one of which was healthy, and Dylan Carlson did not start Saturday’s elimination game.

None of the topics are bigger than an offense that has developed a bad habit of postseason shrinkage. Goldschmidt’s September slide became an October disappearance. As for Arenado, he’s now five-for-33 with one homer and nine strikeouts in eight career postseason games, and 1-for-12 with two strikeouts, no walks, no extra-base hits and no RBIs in two brief postseasons with the Cardinals.

“This team has the right components to go deep and to be successful but clearly it has to come together,” Mozeliak said before Game 1.

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First Pitch: Cardinals postponed due to rain, set for double-header Thursday as make up | Cardinal Beat

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The Cardinals Wednesday evening game against the Chicago Cubs has been postponed due to rain. The game will be made up Thursday at 12:15pm as part of a double-header with the originally scheduled game still taking place at 6:45PM.

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Starting the day winners of four of their last five games, the Cardinals now sit just two games back of the Milwaukee Brewers for the division lead. They also begin the day on the outside looking in on the playoff hunt, half a game back from the Phillies. The Cardinals will send their ace to the mound looking for a series win against the Cubs.

After three days rest between the series in Washington, D.C. and with a lefty on the mound for the Cubs, Albert Pujols returns to the lineup for the Cardinals. Having a midseason resurgence at the plate, The Machine is still mashing lefties this season to the tune of a .339 batting average with an OPS of .931. He’s slotted to hit sixth tonight. 

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With Pujols DH’ing, Nolan Gorman will get the day off. Manager Oli Marmol indicated before the game that he is not worried about a potential issue of finding spots in the middle of the diamond between Gorman, Paul DeJong and Tommy Edman.

With the return of Tyler O’Neill to the lineup, the Cardinals are as close to their opening day roster as they have been in some time. Only Lars Nootbar hitting ninth and playing right field stands as an alteration to the starting nine. 

Lineups (Game now postponned)

CARDINALS (55-48)

CUBS (41-61)

Pitching Matchup

RHP Miles Mikolas (7-8, 2.87 ERA): Pitching for the first time on home soil since June 16, Mikolas has been significantly better at home this season, allowing hitters to only hit .142 when pitching at Busch Stadium. Mikolas is 4-2 when starting a home as well. 

LHP Justin Steele (4-7, 3.87 ERA): Making his 40th career appearance, youngster Steele has struggled in the dog days of summer. In his four starts this July, he’s averaged just four innings per start.

Wild Card

  • The Cardinals revamped their pitching staff at the trade deadline acquiring three new pitchers to bolster the staff: LHP Jordan Montgomery, LHP Jose Quintana and RHP Chris Stratton. 
  • The Cardinals have hit home runs in 11 straight games, the second longest active streak behind the New York Yankees. The Bronx Bombers will come to Busch Stadium this weekend.

Injury Report 

  • Left-hander Steven Matz was diagnosed with a torn MCL in his left knee after reaching for a ground ball back to the mound. After meeting with team doctors there is optimism he could avoid season-ending surgery and rehab the torn ligament, allowing him to return in September. The Cardinals expect to have a plan of action as to the severity of the injury when evaluated later in the week. (Updated July 26)
  • 1B/OF/DH Juan Yepez is on the 10-day IL with a forearm strain suffered a week ago Thursday night making a throw to the plate. He will begin throwing in a few days. (Updated July 22)
  • RHP Jack Flaherty (shoulder) has been moved to the 60-Day IL meaning he would not be available until late August, at the earliest. The transaction gives a structure to a spring training-like return for the right-hander and a rehab assignment that could take a month, if necessary. (Updated July 13)

Who’s Next

Thursday vs. the Chicago Cubs: Jose Quintana (first start as a Cardinal) vs. Marcus Stroman (3-5, 3.99 ERA)

Up Next

The Cardinals close their series against the Cubs before the New York Yankees comes to town this weekend. The Cardinals will play 12 of their next 15 games at Busch Stadium, welcoming the New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies and Milwaukee Brewers over that stretch.

Check back here throughout the evening for immediate coverage of the game and any news that surfaces from the Cardinals’ pre-game activities. We will publish expanded game coverage online Wednesday night, and also in the pages of Thursday’s Post-Dispatch.

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Updated: Cardinals’ Goldschmidt, Arenado won’t go to Toronto because they are unvaccinated | St. Louis Cardinals

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CINCINNATI — The fact that his two best players, Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado, won’t be available to him in Toronto on Tuesday and Wednesday  doesn’t upset Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol at all. At least that’s what he was saying Sunday after the announcement was made that his two stars had chosen not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus are ineligible to travel to Canada for the two-game series.

The country requires people to have been vaccinated in order to enter.

Marmol, who also won’t have backup catcher Austin Romine for the same reason — the players will not be paid while they are away and will be on the restricted list — said he “completely” respected the players’ decision not to be vaccinated. 

“I’ve talked to all of them and I respect it and agree with their decision,” Marmol said. “I’ve got zero issues with it.”

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Goldschmidt, who homered twice and knocked in all the runs for the Cardinals in their 6-3 loss Sunday to Cincinnati said, “Obviously, not an easy decision.

“Over the last year-plus, I’ve tried to talk to as many doctors and many medical professionals as I could and figured out as much as I could. I just decided the potential risks outweighed the potential benefits. It stinks that I can’t play in Toronto. I hate that part of it.

“It’s a very personal, private medical decision. Unfortunately, it becomes public with this. You’ve got to put your health above everything. For me, this was the best decision for my health and, unfortunately, I have to suffer these consequences.”

Marmol said he didn’t think the decision by Goldschmidt and Arenado, who both were chosen for the recent All-Star Game, would be taken ill in the clubhouse.

“I look at it the other way — the ability of that clubhouse to respect the decision of the two guys who have carried this team all year,” he said. “We’re talking about a personal decision to put something in your body that you don’t agree with.”

Goldschmidt said, “I know there could be reactions on both sides and that’s a consequence of the decision. I just have to do what I feel is best and live with the consequences.”

Across the clubhouse, Arenado said, “I feel healthy. I don’t feel like I needed to get it. I’m very safe. I don’t really go out around people. But those are the rules of Canada. I can’t go.

“I’m not trying to do a political stand here or be a spokesperson or this stuff. I’m choosing to do what’s best for me and my family. I mean no harm. But it’s a decision I made and I’m pretty confident about it.”

Assistant hitting coach Turner Ward also did not go to Toronto, apparently having a medical issue whereby he can’t be vaccinated. And pitcher Johan Oviedo might not be there, either, because his Cuban passport has expired. He headed to Miami on Sunday night to try to get it reinstated Monday in hopes of being able to enter Canada. 

Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak, who made the announcement about the players not going to Canada via Zoom, said, “It’s a personal decision. The one positive here is that it’s only two games. From that standpoint, life will find a way of going on.

“I don’t think it’s in anybody’s best interest to try and pass judgment (or) try to make this more than it is.”

The Cardinals, Mozeliak said, had hoped that policy in Canada would change, but it didn’t.  But Mozeliak added that he had hoped the Goldschmidt/Arenado decision wouldn’t “fracture” the clubhouse.

“We all have strong opinions on what we think the right answer should be,” Mozeliak said. “I think we also all understand it’s hard to convince people to do something they’re not comfortable doing. It’s not that we don’t try to promote the vaccination, but again it comes down to the individuals’ decision. We sort of talked about it but it wasn’t something (where) I thought anybody was going to change their minds.”

Marmol said he was sure the clubhouse wouldn’t be fractured.

“I’m 100% sure that it won’t,” he said.

And Mozeliak said that Goldschmidt and Arenado “are still going to have a lot of political capital in the clubhouse and still be respected.”

Cardinals pitcher Miles Mikolas, who hadn’t been vaccinated until after many others, said he wished he hadn’t been.

“A lot stuff coming about (the vaccine) is not great,” he said. “I’m pretty healthy. I don’t think it was 100% necessary.

“When I got it at the time, it seemed like a good idea. But looking back on it, it’s one of those things where maybe I’d rather have not gotten it.”

Mikolas, who has four children age 5 or under, said he got it for them. 

With the Cardinals embroiled in a division race, first, and then a potential quest for a wild-card playoff spot, one or two games at less than full strength could be critical.

“I know it’s only two games but it’s an important two games we’re playing,” Arenado said. “It hurts. I’m not happy about it. It just stinks. I was actually excited about going to Toronto because Toronto is a great place. I was hopeful they would get rid of that ban.” 

Arenado sat out a game at the end of the first part of the season and didn’t play in the All-Star Game because of a sore lower back, and he isn’t fond of Toronto’s turf.

“If there’s one positive to this, it’s not playing on that,” he said. “Obviously, that’s not why I’m not going.”

“You obviously want your best players every game,” said Marmol, who cited the loss of several other key players for various portions of time this season. “But I have a very strong opinion — which I’ll keep very mild here — that I do not at all see this as an issue. I respect their decision to not be in Toronto.”

Goldschmidt and Arenado flew back to St. Louis Sunday night and will work out this week at Busch Stadium. Arenado said he would not watch the games on television.

“Makes me a little nervous,” he said.

Marmol continued to support the players.

“They’re not just in the lineup,” he said. “I don’t mind it. We’ll figure out a way to win without them for those two days.

“But, obviously, it has to be the topic of conversation today. You’re talking about two guys that completely shape the culture daily in that clubhouse.”

If Goldschmidt and Arenado weren’t on this team at all, there wouldn’t have been much need for Sunday’s interrogation. The Cardinals would not be contenders anyway.

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