Jordan Hicks won’t pitch in a Cardinals uniform again for quite a while, and that makes me tremendously sad. That might sound obvious -- any Cardinals player being injured makes me sad. Honestly, any baseball player being injured makes me sad, but Cardinals most of all. It’s not so much that I’m sad about the Cardinals’ chances of reaching the playoffs taking a hit, though my FanGraphs colleague Dan Szymborski did the math on that earlier this week and stlcardsfan4 looked into ways the team could replace his production. No, I’m sad because Jordan Hicks made me feel wonder, in a way that is rare across baseball.
Jordan Hicks and the Ineffable Joy of Baseball
