I went to Busch Stadium on Tuesday night looking for reasons to be optimistic about the sloppy and sluggish Cardinals.
Surely, they cannot be this bad, right?
Are they really the team you thought they were after they started the season 3-9? Or are they going to find the form that helped them go on an 18-6 run to temporarily move atop the National League Central Division standings?
The one sure thing we can say about these Cardinals is that they’re tremendously inconsistent, poor defensively and prone to more mental mistakes on the bases and in the field than you would expect from the Class AA Springfield Cardinals and Class AAA Memphis Redbirds.