Scenario 1: Someone comes up to you in March and says: “At the All-Star break, if the Cardinals were just two games out of first place, would you take it?”
Scenario 2: Someone comes up to you in March and says: “At the All-Star break, if the Cardinals were 44-44, Paul Goldschmidt was hitting .254 and the team was 12th in the league in OPS, would you take it?”
Actually, no, this is the most “2019 Cardinals” way they headed into the break: Losing three of four series — to Oakland, San Diego and San Francisco.