Cardinals rookie Jack Flaherty, in the course of an 8-9 season with 3.34 earned run average in 2018, was 4-0 in August with a 1.13 ERA but finished a dreary September at 0-3, 5.34.
“I didn’t do the little things right. Strike one. You’ve got to throw strike one. That’s what Miles (Mikolas) did all year long,” said Flaherty on Monday, the final day of the Cardinals’ Winter Warm-Up, which took place at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch.
“You’ve got to get ahead of guys,” Flaherty said. “Getting in bad counts doesn’t really work out and I kind of figured that out in September.