By the time he came to the plate for his second at-bat after the fanfare of his arrival, the buzz created by Dylan Carlson’s presence in the Cardinals’ lineup for the first time on May 8, 2020, had likely subsided, rocked to sleep like the lineup itself by Jacob deGrom.
On what portends to be – pretends to be? – a sunny afternoon at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals readied Friday to host the New York Mets and uber-prospect Carlson stepped onto the field for his major-league debut. It’s a virtual certainty that will happen at some point in 2020 if the season resumes.