During this 2019 Awards week, the St. Louis Cardinals news front has been pretty quiet. Other than Mike Shildt securing his first Manager of the Year award and Dakota Hudson finishing 5th in Rookie of the Year award voting, it hasn’t been exciting. The one award we didn’t mention was Cy Young. Jack Flaherty finished fourth in the voting this year. I would expect this to be the low water mark for Flaherty over the next four years.
I have no issue going out on that limb.
After starting the year off taking a step back from what fans saw in 2018, Flaherty had a borderline historic second half.