I wrote the preview post about Michael Wacha. Here’s what I said:
Something kind of strange has happened over the last half-decade—St. Louis Cardinalsstarting pitcher Michael Wacha became underrated.
The amount of hype which surrounded Wacha’s rookie campaign in 2013 has perhaps faded somewhat in the subsequent years, but he was an enormous deal. He debuted at 21, retiring the first ten Kansas City Royals he faced in an extremely annoying game, he nearly threw a no-hitter a couple months after his 22nd birthday, and most notably he threw 22 postseason innings while allowing one only run in that year’s NLDS and NLCS.