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St. Louis Cardinals: Jhonny Peralta injury a blessing in disguise?

If everyone out there reacted the same way that I did yesterday morning when I heard about Jhonny Peralta’s injury, I’m sure it didn’t feel very good.

My stomach dropped. I couldn’t help but to entertain the “here we go again” thoughts that were popping into my head.

But then it dawned upon me that losing Peralta in the early months of 2016 COULD actually be a good thing. When you think about it, what was the number one issue for Peralta in 2015?

It has to be the fact that he slashed just .