Unfortunately, the weather for this series isn't going to be much better than the last one. Less wet, perhaps, but not much warmer. The teams will press through it as best they can.
The Cardinals have now gone two seasons without making the postseason, their longest postseason drought since they missed three straight from 1997-99. To give us an update on them, I asked Josey Curtis, new managing editor at our SB Nation Cardinals site Viva el Birdos, to tell us about her team.
Eliminated by these Cubs in the 2015 postseason, the Cardinals have gone through (by their standards) some rough waters since.