The Cardinals keep rolling out pretty good teams with pretty good players. Pretty good prospects keep sprouting from the farm system, too.
But the Cardinals haven’t featured a transformative superstar since Albert Pujols departed as a free agent. This makes fans understandably antsy.
Well, yes, the Cardinals have reeled off 11 consecutive winning seasons, finishing at least 10 games over .500 in 10 of those years.
Yet the Cardinals have missed the postseason three straight times. They haven’t won a playoff round since 2014 and they haven’t staged a celebratory parade since Pujols exited after the 2011 World Championship.