Lynn Worthy | Post-Dispatch

Sports columnist

Major League Baseball teams got two additional roster spaces Monday, simply by virtue of the calendar flipping from August to September.

By incredible coincidence, rosters expanded by two spots to facilitate September call-ups, and the Cardinals’ top two prospects entering this season, infielder JJ Wetherholt and starting pitcher Quinn Mathews, have already reached the top rung of the minor league ladder.

Yet neither joined the big club.

You could almost hear the cries of angst and discontent from the various corners of Cardinals Nation where fans have camped out — because they’re clearly not at the ballpark — when the news reached them.

Of course, those growls and grumbles from Cardinals followers aren’t really about Wetherholt or Mathews

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