JUPITER, Fla. • It was a small line in a much larger look at the talent in the Cardinals’ organization, and you may have missed it way back in 2013 what with all the glitzier names and lofty rankings that Baseball America had for the team four years ago this month. But it was there. In print. For anyone who caught it.
“BEST CHANGEUP: Michael Wacha.”
Little did we know then what was about to happen.
In the spring of 2013, as the Cardinals’ prepped for what would be a pennant-winning season and Wacha’s grand debut, the organization has a whole reached a place it never had before: No.