Sometimes these previews feel pointless. The All-Star break increases the time between the two series, but the Cardinals faced the Marlins so recently that I don’t feel like I’m going to be teaching anybody about what type of team the Marlins are. They are the anti-Cardinals. They have a negative run differential and are 53-42 on the season. They have won the vast majority of their one-run games.
In fact, in that Marlins preview, I said if baseball were fair, the Cardinals would win nothing but one-run games against the Marlins, But we know baseball isn’t fair so that didn’t happen.