Having shouldered a starter’s workload in each season in professional baseball since his first full minor league season in 2022, what Cardinals starter Michael McGreevy took on, along with over 170 innings, was a type of wear not found in box scores.

The nature of the role he worked in to open the year, one in which he made multiple spot starts in the majors before becoming a full-time rotation member in late July, presented the 25-year-old righty with off-field hurdles.

“That was mentally taxing just with the drives and the flights and the disappointment, even though I knew what was happening and why it was happening,” McGreevy said in an interview during the Cardinals’ final homestand of the 2025 season. “It was just a matter of just weathering the storm and knowing that eventually it’

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