Believe in Jordan Walker

The 2023 season was a disaster at large for the Cardinals, but Jordan Walker’s rookie campaign was an important and promising counterweight

It’s easy enough to nod approvingly at Jordan Walker’s numbers from his recently completed rookie campaign. Across 117 games in St. Louis, he slashed .276/.342/.445 with 16 home runs. That’s eminently respectable as big-league debutantes go, and I join you in quiet appreciation of it. If you apply sufficient context to his performance, though, it all be…