Or — if that one guy just hadn’t been injured, imagine how good that team would’ve been?
That’s the fear, that your favorite team will get so close, and then you end up having to ask those questions. That’s the fear, that after three missed postseasons of saying that about your St. Louis Cardinals, you’ll again say it again after 2019.
Two, because the 2019 Cardinals, right now, look really good. Look really ready. No additional moves to the roster, and this is still a team that could and should win the National League Central Division.
“This is a postseason roster, I think,” Cardinals veteran starter Adam Wainwright said Wednesday, the first day that pitchers and catchers officially worked out at spring training.