Hunt and Peck: During 2014 postmortem press conference, Mozeliak and Matheny look to 2015

John Mozeliak and Mike Matheny sat for a press conference is the early afternoon. Here are some highlights as seen around Twitter:

Injury Update: Molina expected to be 100% by spring; Waino & Wacha to have a normal offseason; Jay to have his left wrist scoped on Wed.

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) October 20, 2014

Mo: "Historically we've always gone with a younger bench, trying to get young guys chances. Maybe this offseason we look at it differently."

— High Sock Sunday (@HighSock_Sunday) October 20, 2014

@CraigJEdwards It sounds like Mozeliak & Matheny are on the same page re CF: Jon Jay is the primary CFer

— Ben (@b_g_h) October 20, 2014

Matheny on using Wacha NLCS G5: "It shows you the faith we have in our players. Some may say blind faith, and I'm not going to deny that."

— Chris Hrabe (@chrabe) October 20, 2014

Mozeliak: Jay's performance has altered how team looks at him moving forward... Will be starting CF next year #STLCards

— KMOXSports (@KMOXSports) October 20, 2014

Mozeliak: Taveras needs to address both his physical conditioning and his passion to play defense #STLCards

— KMOXSports (@KMOXSports) October 20, 2014

Mozeliak: not sure how Jay hurt himself but it started to be addressed in the training room in July #STLCards

— KMOXSports (@KMOXSports) October 20, 2014

Mozeliak: anticipates the coaching staff will remain intact, if there are any changes it will be voluntary by that coach

— KMOXSports (@KMOXSports) October 20, 2014

"Our players do a real nice job of looking past expectation/talent & look at how you go about it." -Matheny on veterans' approach to rookies

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) October 20, 2014

More info can be found on the KMOX twitter page here. - KMOX Twitter

what else is going on in baseball...

• Where in the world is Jose Fernandez? (Middle infielder, not pitcher) - Hardball Talk
• A couple San Francisco radio stations will refuse to play the song "Royals" by Lorde. - Hardball Talk
• Ranking the players in the 2014 World Series. - ESPN
• This is an interesting article recommended by The Overlord about minor leaguers and their wage rates. One might even call it "must read". Or not, of course. - The Star
• A.J. Pierzynski looks to play in 2015. - Hardball Talk
• Nori Aoki versus the Giants infielders. - Just a bit outside

what the cardinals are up to...

• Is Kolten Wong the key to the Cardinals improving in 2015? - STLToday
• The Cardinals will have some questions to face this offseason. - ESPN
• Mike Matheny on using Michael Wacha. - Hardball Talk
• Our own stlcardsfan4 wrote his own thoughts about the Cardinals roster in 2015. - Wordpress
• Bye, Baseball :( - CBS
• DeWitt to open DeWallet. - STLToday

• Cardinal Nation: thank you for being the best fans in baseball. See you in the Spring!

  — Marco Gonzales (@MarcoGonzales_) October 17, 2014

• The gauntlet has been thrown:
  

  @johnjf125 the golden gate bridge is overrated

  — let go ram (@FWBluesFan) October 17, 2014

KNOW THINE ENEMY...

the nl central

• Ike Davis might be getting interest from the Marlins. - Bucs Dugout
• Arbitration eligible Pirates. - Bucs Dugout
• Former Brewer skipper Net Yost is in the World Series. - Brew Crew Ball