This will be the season we’ll find out. Wainwright, of course, is coming off a disastrous 2015. Just as he was settling in, he injured his achilles tendon after stumbling out of the batter’s box in an April 25 game at Milwaukee. The timing couldn’t have been worse, he told the AP and ESPN after it happened:
“It was by far the best I felt this year. I really had things working. I started changing arm angles a little bit, working in and out better than I have been and I just was having a lot of fun out there.