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BenFred: Homegrown Cards who tasted postseason in 2019 could be key to chances in 2020

Last October, they were the homegrown and fresh-faced newcomers soaking in their first major league champagne celebration.

Many in the same group are either missing or searching during the Cardinals’ white-knuckle attempt to sneak into baseball’s expanded postseason.

These names are certainly not the only ones struggling on this meandering team. But their slumps and dips and dives could be the most concerning of the bunch.

The Cardinals entered the 2019 postseason, their first in three years, with a collection of young players who, a) had been drafted and developed by the organization and, b) were finally getting their first sip of October.