For the third season in a row, the St. Louis Cardinals will not be participating in October baseball (tears are coming down my face as I am writing this by the way.). There were many things to blame for the September collapse: rookie arms giving out, offense going extinct, bullpen going back to their pre-August ways.
Something that really killed us though was not having a reliable lefty arm in the bullpen.
At the beginning of the season, the Cardinals were able to patch up the lefty bullpen woes with Austin Gomber, but after Brett Cecil made his return to the bullpen, Gomber was sent back down to the Triple-A rotation.