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Cardinals notebook: Adam Wainwright says missing 200-win mark is not that big a deal

“It’s a good round number,” said Wainwright of 200. “That year I could have won the Cy Young (Award), 2009, when I came out of (his final start) up 6-1 in the seventh inning ... that would have been my 20th win. Both of my runners I left out there scored. And then we gave up the rest of them.

“I was told that I would have won (the Cy Young) if I’d had won 20. Since I didn’t, then I didn’t.

“I bring that up because the other day a writer who’s been around a long time, said, ‘If you had 200, you’d probably get in.