Normally, when walking into Winter Warm-Up, it’s cold and frigid and deflating — but once you get inside, there’s this feeling of warmth and comfort and ignited fire. Cardinals baseball! It’s happening! But on Saturday inside Winter Warm-Up, well, it still felt cold and frigid and deflating. Cardinals baseball? What’s happening?

Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak -- a veteran team-builder who has regularly used the offseason to add difference-making talents such as Paul Goldschmidt, Nolan Arenado, Willson Contreras and Sonny Gray to try and chase a championship -- oddly saw this winter slow to a crawl.