You may have heard that 2020 was an odd year. The pandemic shortened the baseball season, including a giant vacuum between mid-March and July 1st in which players didn’t play any organized baseball. The break, and the unique way that games were eventually played, had ramifications. Players missed time either from contracting Covid or from contact tracing. Teams like the Marlins and especially Cardinals missed giant chunks of games as outbreaks ravaged their rosters, then had to make up missed games with outrageous sums of exhausting doubleheaders. The league ran up the lowest batting average on balls in play in 33 years.
Johnny Wholestaff Will be the Most Important Cardinal Pitcher in 2021
