KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Playing the ‘what-if?’ game can be a mind-bogging experience for Cardinals players, staff and fans. What if Jack Flaherty, who already was 8-1, hadn’t hurt himself when the Cardinals were half a game to the good in first place on May 31, the day Flaherty went to the sideline for 73 days with a torn oblique muscle?
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The same people who could lament his two-month-plus absence now could allow themselves to fantasize about his nine remaining starts of the season. What if Flaherty goes 8-1 again?
