Following the games played on July 30 of last season, the St. Louis Cardinals had, per Baseball Prospectus’s odds, a 19.3% chance of making it to the 2017 postseason and a 14.9% chance of making it to the National League Division Series. While the Cardinals were hardly out of contention, the odds were long enough that rumors the Cardinals would sell players with soon-to-be expiring contracts, most notably veteran starting pitcher Lance Lynn, were omnipresent. Some of us were sure enough he would be dealt that we began writing retrospectives of his Cardinals career.
The ethics of rooting for a Lance Lynn signing
