There are 35 games remaining in the season. Many storylines and endpoints have been realized, come and gone with the rigors of baseball. The Brewers have won just under 80 games now, and we are really so many games out of first place, under .500 by a game. Outside of a collapse from another Wild Card contender, the Cardinals are done for the year. Gone is their really good bullpen.

Actually it has been about the same in August but with an uptick in ERA. The FIP is only a little worse post-trade deadline. Maton and Helsley have been doing worse away from St Louis, but mostly Helsley: hitters are hitting over .900 OPS in August vs our former closer. Maton has actually been pretty good for the Rangers, but he hasn’t been elite like he was as a Cardinal.

Steven Matz, on the other hand, has b

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