The article title may upset some of you who feel that Willson Contreras has been treated exactly as he should. I will say that I am probably one of the biggest Contreras and supporters of him on the Cardinals, but it was not always that way.

As a Cardinals fan in the Chicagoland area, anything the Cubs did was upsetting for me until I really got the chance to be a part of baseball at a higher level. I grew up with the now “old head” way of thinking: choke up with two strikes, sprint on and off the field, don’t watch your hits, etc. but after playing in college and through the independent levels, I happily altered those thoughts. The game is hard. Celebrate your victories (within reason), become a brand, find the approach that works for your talents.

That is when I really made my shift to

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