It doesn’t give me a lot of joy to be able to say ‘I told you so’ in this case, especially because I am sure many St. Louis Cardinals fans love him, but it wasn’t hard to see this kind of performance coming.
Sure, it wasn’t 7 walks in 2.2 innings that Yu Darvish gave up in his debut this year with the Cubs, but Adam Wainwright is a shell of the pitcher he once was, and it has shown. He had his flashes of a resurgence in 2018, but this is what we have seen from Wainwright for the better part of two seasons.