ST. LOUIS -- You can run from information nowadays, but it's pretty hard to hide from it. Adam Wainwright wasn't all that interested in looking at his numbers this season, but they were hard to avoid. They were large and awkward and easily discovered on about 250 different websites.
He went into Wednesday's start with the second-highest ERA (6.80) in the major leagues out of the 105 qualified starters. That's an unfortunate but necessary place to begin this story, one the St. Louis Cardinals can now begin to hope will have a happy ending.