It's July 29. The Cards (most would argue) have an opening in the rotation, after another dissatisfying start from Daniel Ponce de Leon.
Right now the rotation features Jack Flaherty, Dakota Hudson, Adam Wainwright and Miles Mikolas. The trade deadline is Wednesday. How did we get to here? Didn't they have “five No. 1s?” Or “ two rotations?”
I decided to look back at a column written for January 21st from Winter Warm-Up … and then make comments on it today, for current perspective.