Why the Cardinals would never move to the AL

The Astros are moving to the AL. Why not the Cardinals?

[Cardinals team President Bill] DeWitt said the Cardinals, unlike the Astros, likely would have rejected $50 million to $60 million to move to the American League in 2013, partly because “I hate the designated hitter rule. My dad does, too.”

I’d like to think that such principle -- and not the fact that, since the Cardinals are one of the old line NL teams going back over a century making baseball never consider it -- is the real reason they wouldn’t do it. Shut up. I’m sure you choose to believe silly things too.

Anyway, that quote was just an excuse to link a fun post from RetroSimba, who attended the Cardinals invitation-only blogger event yesterday, where DeWitt and GM John Mozeliak answered questions of, well, bloggers. Included were their comments about wanting to reach out via social media more, bypassing some more traditional communications means. Such a dynamic is one we’ve been talking about here for a long time and I think, more than even the economics of print media, will cause the normal baseball reporting biz to change.

There are a lot of other good things there too, more candid and unguarded comments than you typically see from team brass, so I recommend a click.