Derrick Goold | Post-Dispatch

Lead baseball writer

CHICAGO — During the New York Yankees’ visit to St. Louis this past August, Brian Cashman welcomed the coincidence of being at Busch Stadium in the waning weeks of his friend and longtime peer John Mozeliak’s tenure.

Only Cashman has been active leading a major-league club’s baseball operations department longer than Mozeliak and only a few who sit in a “big chair” can relate to the weight of running one of the game’s most historic franchises. They have connected over that through the years, and as he rode to the ballpark, Cashman thought about how the schedule gave him a chance to deliver a message in person to Mozeliak, who everyone calls “Mo.”

“I’ve talked to him about this on the phone several times but to get to be here in person

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