Cards enter Meetings with focus on OF help

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ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals arrive at the Winter Meetings this week having already been plenty active this Hot Stove season. Not only have they subtracted more than a dozen players from their 40-man roster since the season ended, but the Cards have flipped Jaime Garcia for a trio of prospects and inked Brett Cecil to the richest reliever deal in franchise history.

Their winter work, however, is far from complete.

• Hot Stove Tracker

The team’s biggest need entering the offseason — outfield help — remains their biggest need at the start of the Winter Meetings.

The free-agent departures of Matt Holliday and Brandon Moss, coupled with the defensive struggles of the team in 2016, have plunged the Cardinals into the outfield market. Securing an above-average defensive center fielder who could …

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