"Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. and general manager John Mozeliak leave the Pfister Hotel today having re-established dialogue with the representative for free agent first baseman Albert Pujols.

Whether the process was advanced is open to interpretation.

DeWitt and Mozeliak met for more than an hour late Tuesday night with Pujols' longtime agent, Dan Lozano, but will apparently wait before modifying the club's 10-month-old offer that was rejected before spring training.

Both parties confirmed the meeting but abstained from providing additional details.

"The contents of any meeting or plans for any future meetings are considered confidential. But as far as acknowledging there being a meeting here, it's true," Mozeliak said.

Lozano also offered confirmation, "but beyond that I really don't have anything to say about the process.""