The Winter Meetings so far have been slow-going. Here’s the best of what’s Cardinals-related:
**According to Matthew Leach, the Cardinals and Walt Jocketty are telling themselves they are in the running for erstwhile Giant Jason Schmidt.
Schmidt’s agents, the Hendricks brothers, say Schmidt wouldn’t necessarily not go to the Midwest and that a three-year deal is not a hindrance.
We’ll see. One could speculate that Chris Carpenter’s extension may have laid the groundwork for a run at Schmidt, i.e., the team can offer Schmidt some big bucks now that Carp is getting his. That sort of thing.
**Ken Rosenthal says the Cardinals offered Vicente Padilla four years before he took three years from the Rangers.
