TOWER GROVE – With the draft approaching, Cardinals vice president of player procurement and farm director Jeff Luhnow is a traveling man.

Constantly traveling.

There’s less than three weeks before the draft and soon the Cardinals will be holding scouting workouts at various sites around the country — and scout meetings at each place. While the Cardinals held a mock draft this past winter to help get more familiar with the amateur players available this June, and take…

SOUTH GRAND — Starting with a possible trade partner that probably doesn’t have what the Cardinals are looking for and ending with a question about the chances of a fan-favorite outfielder trying on an infielder’s glove, this week’s edition of the mailbag is loaded with all manner of things middle infield.

Oh, and there is also an advocacy of a four-man rotation.

Reliever Russ Springer is back. Rico Washington gave everyone a great story. And…

TOWER GROVE – The PostCards inbin was overrun with spam and the Cyrillic alphabet – who knew four years of Russian would help me wade through questions for a baseball mailbag? спасибо Большое. One email that had the subject line: “Thanks Houston/We Have Liftoff!”

Thought for sure that was a love letter to Brandon Backe. But no.

It was a religious group’s mass email with a space travel pun. Houston? Liftoff? Getit? Dah. (Just wait until…

JUPITER, Fla. — The Cardinals’ brass headed for the Dominican Republic today for a barnstorming visit that includes a meeting with more than a couple dozen agents.

Cardinals GM John Mozeliak and two of his top lieutenants — assistant general manager John Abbamondi and farm director Jeff Luhnow — left the spring training facility this morning for a one-day jaunt to the Dominican. This evening, the trio of Cardinals officials will meet with more than 20 agents as part…

DOWNTOWN — Thanks to the writers’ strike, the best ongoing drama we’ve had this winter is “Courting Johan”, a reality TV series featuring heavy favorites and what is likely to be a surprise ending with a blockbuster payout.

There even was a cameo appearance by the local club.

You might have missed it.

It was early on, perhaps even in the pilot episode, when the Cardinals called the Minnesota Twins to ask if there was…

TOWER GROVE — Returned home after a delayed, fogged, re-routed and serpentine trek back from Prague to be greeted by a true sign of spring: Lindy’s Fantasy Baseball was on the airport’s magazine racks.

Ah, preview mags. 

Flipped through Lindy’s on the last leg of the flight home and loved scanning the mock draft and the predicted statistics. One of the first places I turned was to the list of ”Hot Properties”, or 40 fantasy rookies to…