Bag O' Mail, Part I: An AI-generated image of a truck, movies, reasons to keep paying attention to the 2023 Cardinals, Miles Mikolas, Miguel Mejia, the catcher logjam, and more

Readers have questions; writer has answers, some of them possibly even correct and coherent

Once again, loyal and gentle readers have responded with a horn o’ plenty of mailbag questions, which means I’ll be breaking up my responses into two posts. Herein lies the first one.

To set the scene, we need a fitting image generated by AI, which, it says here, is the only thing AI is good for. So robust is this mailbag edition that no mere mail truck…