“Everyone wants to have fun, winning’s fun.”

This is what they’re doing — trying to build winning. For all the sunshine and autographs that make spring training a ritual, what is spring training, really? It’s putting together a puzzle.

Baseball, if you will, is broken down into dozens of little pieces: bunting over here, pitcher’s fielding practice over here, fungo’d flies in the outfield, 6-4-3-ing in the infield.

For the Cardinals here, it’s finding ways to improve each skill, each aspect of the game. To maximize and master.

And then, of course, to put the puzzle together.

I like this idea, this visual from Monday morning, the Cardinals scattered about in sessions, the puzzle pieces.

And manager Mike Matheny, who at times is called into question for mismanaging or micromanaging, makes sense here. He explained the mental approach to this game, to this puzzle.

So a team builds the puzzle in spring training, and then come the anticipated regular-season games. With the same attention to each single detail in spring training, a Cardinals player in a game should devote the same amount of attention to each single play.