Injuries A Rite Of Spring For Cardinals

If spring training is the wrong time and place to fall in love, it should also be an inappropriate setting for nausea and consternation. But just as it’s been difficult to maintain perspective over precocious talents such as 20-year-old outfielder Oscar Taveras and last year’s first-round draftee, Michael Wacha, it’s becoming a challenge to dismiss the injuries – large and small, typical and bizarre — that increasingly define Cardinals camp.

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