Don’t like your team very much this season? Just wait a week.
So it goes in the slog known as the 2026 Major League Baseball season, where nobody’s really out of it and anyone can get back in it just by winning a few games.
This week’s example? The St. Louis Cardinals.
They dealt away starter Dustin May and reliever JoJo Romero and respected outfielder Lars Nootbaar at the trade deadline and promptly won four consecutive series and eight of their past 12 games. That’s lifted them above .500 and within three games of a playoff spot.
Talk about addition by, well, addition: Nootbaar’s trade helped open some space for rookie Joshua Báez, who merely…
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