St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright throws during spring training in Jupiter, Fla. Wainwright has injured his throwing elbow and is out for the season. (Jeff Roberson, The Associated Press )

JUPITER, FLA. — St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright will have Tommy John surgery on his right elbow and miss the entire season.

Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak confirmed the news Thursday at the team’s spring training facility in Jupiter, Fla. He said he learned the severity of the injury on Wednesday night after the 29-year-old pitcher sought a second opinion from Dr. Lewis Yocum in Los Angeles.

“It’s not a real surprise to us but certainly a disappointment,” Mozeliak said. “As we look to the future now we certainly believe we still have a strong starting rotation. Now we’re going to have to look to try to fill it in terms of a fifth spot.” Wainwright, who felt stiffness in his arm after Monday’s throwing session, won 20 games last year and was runner-up for the NL Cy Young Award. His loss leaves the team with a big hole in a starting rotation that for now includes Chris Carpenter, Kyle Lohse, Jaime Garcia and Jake Westbrook.

“That’s a big guy to miss,” Lohse said. “We still got to go out there and play. Nobody is going to feel sorry for us.

We still have to go out there and do our jobs.” The Cardinals entered spring training with a rotation that Mozeliak said he would stack up against any in baseball.

“You’re losing an ace,” Mozeliak said. “It’s not something you can replace overnight. I would also say we have four quality pitchers. It’s not exactly like we have no bullets left.” Manager Tony La Russa said Wednesday, before learning the severity of the injury, that he doesn’t expect the Cardinals to try to replace Wainwright through a trade or free agent signing of someone like Kevin Millwood or possibly Pedro Martinez.

But that could change.

“You follow camps and see if something develops where it’s a good fit,” La Russa said. “But right now it’s not a good fit because were going to cover it from within. We’ll pay attention though, that’s part of what you do in spring training. We have scouts all over and we’ll watch box scores.” La Russa has “six or seven” pitchers in camp who will have the opportunity to join the rotation.

“Guys are assigned at least a couple appearances over the first eight to 10 games and then a lot of those decisions make themselves,” La Russa said.

The list is headed by reliever Kyle McClellan and includes P.J. Walters, Lance Lynn, Adam Ottavino, Ian Snell, Brian Tallet and Brandon Dickson. McClellan and Tallet are penciled in to join the Cardinals bullpen. Walters, Lynn, Ottavino and Dickson helped comprise the Class AAA Memphis staff for most of last season.

La Russa sees plenty of work for the candidates during the early spring training games.

“Early it’s not a problem,” he said. “Even if you want to give a guy a look or something the squeeze comes after you’ve gone through the group twice, when you start really getting the guys (work) that are on the club. So we’ll see where we are.” Tommy John surgery reconstructs the ulnar collateral ligament, replacing it with a tendon from elsewhere in the body. The procedure, named after the pitcher who was the first professional athlete to successfully have it done back in 1974, requires months of recovery.

Mozeliak said spoke to Wainwright late Wednesday.

“Obviously he’s down,” Mozeliak said. “But he certainly understands what’s at stake and he’s disappointed but I think he’s also relieved to know what the next step looks like.” The 6-foot-7 Wainwright went 20-11 with a 2.42 ERA last season, finishing behind Philadelphia’s Roy Halladay in Cy Young balloting while making his first All-Star team. His 2.93 ERA since 2007 trails only Halladay, and no NL pitcher threw more than Wainwright’s 463 1-3 innings during the past two seasons.

In 2009, Wainwright led the NL in wins (19), innings (233) and starts (34), winning a Gold Glove while finishing third in Cy Young voting.

Wainwright felt soreness toward the end of last season and he didn’t pitch in September. He had minor arm issues in 1998 and 2004. His surgery has not yet been scheduled.

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Posted: 5:59 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, 2011

JUPITER — With Adam Wainwright out for the season and Chris Carpenter’s spring interrupted by a hamstring injury, the Cardinals will be counting heavily on left-hander Jaime Garcia.

Garcia, who finished third in the 2010 rookie of the year voting, struggled Tuesday in his second spring start.

He threw 62 pitches in three innings while allowing three runs on seven hits and three walks in an 8-7 loss to Boston at sold-out Roger Dean Stadium.

The three regulars in the Red Sox lineup – Jacoby Ellsbury, David Ortiz and Kevin Youkilis – were 3-for-6 against Garcia.

“The first two innings I was having a little trouble calming myself down. I was rushing things a little bit,” Garcia said.

He said he experienced that kind of anxiety last year but not until the middle of the season. He won a spot in the rotation with an outstanding spring and finished the year 13-8 with a 2.70 ERA.

This season, he might start the second game because of Wainwright’s injury (Tommy John surgery) and Carpenter’s setback. The other candidate for No. 2 starter is Jake Westbrook.

Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said Garcia’s problem Tuesday was merely “a couple of mechanical things. He’ll fix it.”

Carpenter on Tuesday threw off a mound for the second time since he was injured March 1 and said he was pain-free.

“I was still a little hesitant at times,” he said. “As it went on I started to get a little more aggressive. I was real happy with the way it felt.”

He still might miss a second start Friday. The Cardinals said that wouldn’t preclude him from starting on opening day March 31 against San Diego in St. Louis.

(AP) — Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits and a split
squad of Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-7 Tuesday.

Ellsbury doubled, drove in a run, scored once and stole a base.
He left in the sixth inning and Boston scored four times in the
eighth.

Two of Ellsbury’s hits came off Jaime Garcia, who looked sloppy
at times in his second start of the spring.

Garcia allowed three runs on seven hits and three walks in three
innings. He is projected as the No. 2 starter in the St. Louis
rotation with Adam Wainwright out after season-ending ligament
replacement surgery.

(Copyright ©2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

JUPITER, Fla. — St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter says he didn’t feel any pain after his latest bullpen session.

Carpenter threw on the side Tuesday. It was his second session since he left his spring debut because of a strained hamstring.

Carpenter and the Cardinals say there’s still no final word on whether he’ll pitch Friday. Carpenter says there won’t be a decision until Wednesday at the earliest.

The 2005 Cy Young Award winner has won at least 16 games in each of the past two seasons. His health takes on added importance after the Cardinals lost Adam Wainwright to season-ending ligament replacement surgery earlier this spring.

Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press

Updated Mar 8, 2011 12:05 AM ET

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)

St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter has been scratched from his next scheduled start with a balky left hamstring.

Carpenter tweaked his leg during a spring start last Tuesday and felt it again during a throwing session on Sunday, forcing the Cardinals to delay his next outing.

St. Louis manager Tony La Russa is preaching patience when it comes to Carpenter, and he says he isn’t concerned about the right-hander in the long term.

Health has been a problem this spring for St. Louis, which already lost starter Adam Wainwright (right elbow) for the year and will be without utilityman Nick Punto (sports hernia) at the start of the season.

La Russa talked about Carpenter before St. Louis’ 10-4 victory over Minnesota on Monday.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)—St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter(notes) has been scratched from his next scheduled start with a balky left hamstring.

Carpenter tweaked his leg during a spring start last Tuesday and felt it again during a throwing session on Sunday, forcing the Cardinals to delay his next outing.

St. Louis manager Tony La Russa is preaching patience when it comes to Carpenter, and he says he isn’t concerned about the right-hander in the long term.

Health has been a problem this spring for St. Louis, which already lost starter Adam Wainwright(notes) (right elbow) for the year and will be without utilityman Nick Punto(notes) (sports hernia) at the start of the season.

La Russa talked about Carpenter before St. Louis’ 10-4 victory over Minnesota on Monday.

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The Post-Dispatch reported Monday that Chris Carpenter, the St. Louis Cardinals’ number-one starter with Adam Wainwright recovering from elbow surgery, threw briefly in a practice session on Sunday, representing a limited improvement in his condition following his injury-shortened Spring Training debut. Carpenter’s still “not going all out”, according to Rick Hummel, but he’s able to pitch, which makes him the Cardinals’ healthiest ace.

Carpenter was outstanding and mostly healthy in 2009, and he was good and extremely healthy in 2010; considering he’d made four starts in the previous two years that run of health and performance has been a remarkable surprise. In post-Wainwright 2011 the Cardinals need one more 28-start season out of their ostensibly fragile ace; it’s a tough thing to rely on, but that’s the position they find themselves in. 

The good news—the last time he suffered a leg injury in Spring Training was 2009. Based on this sample size I can state definitively that Carpenter will go 17-4 with a 2.24 ERA across 28 starts this season. Given the recent change in run environment it will be a slight decline from those 2009 heights, but it should be enough to get the Cardinals’ through Wainwright’s year-long vacation.

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Kyle McClellan, the early favorite in the St. Louis Cardinals’ Spring Training 2011 race to replace Adam Wainwright in the starting rotation, put together a dominant performance in his first appearance of spring, striking out three in three scoreless innings. Fringe candidate Bryan Augenstein threw two scoreless innings of his own, striking out one. The Cardinals got two hits from Albert Pujols and their only RBI from Matt Holliday; Lance Berkman, DHing again, was 0-3, and third baseman Matt Carpenter was 1-2 with a walk.

McClellan hasn’t started since a stint in the low minors before his successful relief conversion, and there’s concern—coming mostly from outside the Cardinals’ camp, and in part from inside SB Nation St. Louis—that he has no real track record in a starting role. But it’s clear he wants the job, and it’s equally clear that Lance Lynn can’t win it—McClellan would have to lose it, at this point.

Fernando Salas, who will have to pick up some slack in the bullpen if Kyle McClellan departs it, closed out the win for his second Spring Training save, striking out one.

St. Louis Cardinals righthander Chris Carpenter told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that his left hamstring felt better today and that he doesn’t expect to miss more than one spring start because of the injury.

“I’m not concerned about it. I’m not concerned about it being an issue. If I miss (a start), I miss one. But I know one thing. They’re not going to push it. If there’s a question, then I’ll definitely miss one,” he told the newspaper.

“I can feel it a little bit. I’ve never done this before, so I don’t know anything about it. But everybody that has done it says that it will be fine.”

Carpenter gave the team a scare when he had to exit Tuesday’s game early, but it appears he dodged a serious injury.

With righthander Adam Wainwright sidelined for the 2011 season following Tommy John surgery Monday, Carpenter likely will be St. Louis’ opening day starter.

The St. Louis Cardinals had two aces when they arrived at spring training. Now, both are hurt.

Chris Carpenter left the Cardinals’ 7-1 victory over the Florida Marlins in the third inning Tuesday after feeling a “twinge” in his left hamstring. Co-ace Adam Wainwright underwent Tommy John surgery on his right arm on Monday and will miss the season.

Carpenter was diagnosed with a strained left hamstring but said the injury isn’t serious.

Wainwright said he has a “sense of peace” with the elbow injury and believes he will be back to full strength in one year. He is recovering in St. Louis and expects to begin rehab in 13 days at the team’s spring training facility.

“I’m dealing with a lost season,” Wainwright said. “But I’ve definitely come to terms with it. I was blessed with a big sense of peace. Ever since the night that I did it, I had a gut feeling that it was probably the time. My elbow had gone.”

Wainwright felt stiffness on pitch 33 of a 35-pitch live batting practice session on Feb. 21. At first he hoped he had just hyperextended his elbow but knew something was seriously wrong that night after waking from a nap.

Although the ligament was not completely torn, Wainwright described it as “basically the whole thing was mangled.” He will rehab during the summer in St. Louis but will start his program in Florida.

Twins: All-Star closer Joe Nathan returned to the mound for the first time since

an elbow injury wiped out his 2010 season and pitched a scoreless inning in a 5-0 loss to Boston. The right-hander got two flyouts and a groundout in the fourth, walking Jarrod Saltalamacchia.

“I was nervous for sure,” said Nathan, who had surgery last March 26 to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. “I was definitely anxious to get out there. But then, I’ve been looking forward to today for a long time, so I was excited, too. It went well.”

Red Sox: Pitcher Josh Beckett did not work out after getting hit in the head during batting practice Monday and experiencing symptoms of a concussion. Red Sox manager Terry Francona said Beckett’s status is day to day

Nationals: Bryce Harper, the top overall pick in last year’s amateur draft, singled for his first spring training hit Tuesday in Washington’s 5-3 win over the Mets. The highly-touted 18-year-old, who struck out twice on seven pitches in his spring debut a day earlier, entered as a pinch hitter in the fifth inning and singled to left field off Pedro Beato.

Yankees: Derek Jeter says too much is being made about the change of his front-foot stride. The Yankees captain no longer is striding with his left foot. He made a smaller adjustment late last season, shortening his stride after a session with hitting coach Kevin Long.

“I’m not changing a swing,” Jeter said. “My swing is exactly the same. I’m shortening down the stride. It’s really not as drastic as people are making it out to be. I’m not putting my hands in a different position. I’m not doing a different path.”

Anderson retires: Garret Anderson is retiring after 17 seasons in baseball, almost all of them with the Angels. The 38-year-old left fielder says he has no regrets and hasn’t ruled out a coaching career. Anderson said he had offers from teams this spring, but would have had to sign a minor league contract. “I could never be in a position hoping a player gets hurt,” Anderson said in an Angels’ news release.

Dodgers: The ex-wife of team owner Frank McCourt is accusing her ex-husband of making financial deals concerning the team behind her back in violation of a court order. Jamie McCourt filed court papers Tuesday requesting a judge order Frank McCourt to turn over documents about the team’s finances after reading in the Los Angeles Times about a $200 million loan from Fox Television that Frank McCourt tried to secure. The deal was rejected by MLB Commissioner Bud Selig.

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

JUPITER — One day after Adam Wainwright had season-ending surgery on his right elbow, the Cardinals other ace, Chris Carpenter, left Tuesday’s 7-1 victory over the Marlins with a strained left hamstring.

Carpenter said he felt a “twinge” in his leg and he was removed after issuing his lone walk of his outing.

“They don’t think it’s very bad so I’m not concerned with it,” said Carpenter, who left the clubhouse with his upper left leg wrapped in ice. “We’ll wait and see tomorrow. I’m sure they will know more but what they say is it doesn’t seem like it’s very bad.”

The Cardinals’ bad luck continued in the next inning when setup man Mitchell Boggs, who was rushed into the game to replace Carpenter, was escorted off the mound after straining his lower back.

Boggs said his back has been bothering him throughout the spring but believes the injury is not serious.

“It was kind of head-scratching,” manager Tony La Russa said. “We kind of held our breath. We came in here and the doctors and trainers said they are minor.

“Looks like we caught a break.”

Carpenter was cruising, pitching 2 2/3 innings, allowing one hit, one walk and striking out two, before facing Chris Coghlan. He felt the injury on the pitch before he was removed and attempted one more pitch.

“It didn’t feel too good so I came out,” he said. “I couldn’t throw. The next pitch I could barely put my foot on the ground. I’m not going to blow it out totally just to get through one more out of the first spring training game.”

Wainwright spoke to a group of reporters via teleconference on Tuesday and said he expects to return for spring training next season in full health.

“The protocol nowadays is a 11 1/2 months program,” Wainwright said about the rehab for Tommy John surgery. “Everything I’ve heard is I’ll be back full steam, full bore ready to go this time next year spring training.”

Wainwright said on Tuesday he felt a twinge in his elbow on pitch 33 of a 35 pitch bullpen session early last week. The elbow completely tightened up after he went home.

“I’m dealing with a lost season but I’ve definitely come to terms with it,” Wainwright said. “I was blessed with a big sense of peace. Ever since the night that I did it, I had a gut feeling that it was probably the time.”

Wainwright injured the elbow twice before, the first time in 1998, and had been told by doctors there was just a 10 percent chance it would heal on its own. But the timing of the injury was a surprise because he was feeling so good.

“I threw seven bullpen sessions, and my mechanics and delivery and my arm felt great,” he said. “That’s why it was such a shocker to me. It was just real weird. It just goes to show you that it was just time for it to happen.”

Boggs replaced Carpenter and struck out the only two batters he faced. He pitched 67 1/3 innings last season, second most on the team. He was 2-3 with a 3.61 ERA.

“I made that one pitch and I felt it a little bit more than I would like to,” he said. “We’ll come in in the morning and see how it feels. They seemed very positive about it.”

JUPITER, Fla. — The St. Louis Cardinals had two aces when they arrived at spring training. Now, both are hurt.

Chris Carpenter left the Cardinals’ 7-1 victory over the Florida Marlins in the third inning Tuesday after feeling a “twinge” in his left hamstring. Carpenter allowed one hit in 2 2/3 innings against the Marlins before calling for a trainer.

The injury came one day after fellow All-Star Adam Wainwright had season-ending elbow surgery.

Carpenter was diagnosed with a strained left hamstring, but said the problem isn’t serious.

“They don’t think it’s very bad so I’m not concerned with it,” said Carpenter, who left the clubhouse with his upper left leg wrapped in ice. “We’ll wait and see tomorrow. I’m sure they will know more, but what they say is, it doesn’t seem like it’s very bad.”

Carpenter said he had never before had a hamstring injury.

The Cardinals’ bad luck continued in the next inning when setup man Mitchell Boggs, rushed into the game to replace Carpenter, was escorted off the mound after straining his lower back.

Boggs said his back has been bothering him throughout the spring, but he doesn’t think the injury is serious, either.

“It was kind of head-scratching,” manager Tony La Russa said. “We kind of held our breath. We came in here and the doctors and trainers said they are minor.

“Looks like we caught a break.”

The Cardinals haven’t been so fortunate all spring, however.

Wainwright had Tommy John surgery Monday and is expected to be sidelined 12 to 15 months, a huge blow to the team. When healthy, Wainwright and Carpenter form one of the best top-of-the-rotation tandems in the majors.

Carpenter was cruising until he got hurt. He pitched 2 2/3 innings, allowing one hit, one walk and striking out two, before facing Chris Coghlan in the third. The right-hander said he felt a twinge on the pitch before he was removed.

“I tried to throw one more and it didn’t feel too good so I came out,” he said. “I couldn’t throw. The next pitch I could barely put my foot on the ground. I’m not going to blow it out totally just to get through one more out of the first spring training game.”

Carpenter was 16-9 with a 3.22 ERA last season.

Boggs pitched 67 1-3 innings last year, second most on the team. He was 2-3 with a 3.61 ERA.

“I made that one pitch and I felt it a little bit more than I would like to,” Boggs said. “We’ll come in in the morning and see how it feels. They seemed very positive about it.”

Boggs struck out the only two batters he faced.

Matt Holliday and Allen Craig each hit a two-run homer off Marlins starter Chris Volstad, who gave up four runs and six hits in two innings.

John Jay and Mark Hamilton also homered for St. Louis.

“We had some pitches to hit and there were a lot of good swings,” La Russa said.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

JUPITER, Fla. – Albert Pujols swung at the first pitch he saw of spring training, his job with the St. Louis Cardinals in absolutely no jeopardy.

Matt Dominguez doesn’t have that luxury with the Florida Marlins.

Trying to win a spot on the Marlins’ major league roster, Dominguez hit a two-run homer in his first plate appearance as Florida opened its formal spring training schedule Monday with a 6-3 win over the Cardinals.

“Made solid contact and it happened to go out,” said Dominguez, the Marlins’ first-round pick in the 2007 amateur draft. “Not only just getting a hit, but a home-run in the first at-bat, it’s kind of big.”

Florida’s Gaby Sanchez was 2 for 2 with a two-run double. Marlins starter Anibal Sanchez allowed two hits and a run in two innings, throwing 18 of 27 pitches for strikes.

Gaby Sanchez was in the cleanup spot for Mike Stanton, who says he likely will miss about two weeks because of a strained right quadriceps. He was hurt Sunday in an exhibition loss to the Miami Hurricanes.

“Good game,” Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez said. “Anibal Sanchez, he threw very good pitches. I think he hanged two breaking balls, but other than that, he was very good.”

Lance Berkman was 2 for 2 with a home run for St. Louis. Pujols went 0 for 2 for the Cardinals, who announced during the game that right-hander Adam Wainwright had elbow ligament-replacement surgery earlier in the day in St. Louis.

Only in Game 1 of spring training, there was no shortage of injury news for St. Louis. Besides Wainwright’s surgery, infielder Nick Punto returned to the team’s spring facility four days after undergoing surgery to repair a sports hernia.

Punto is expected to be out 8-12 weeks.

“We’re trying to be progressive with the rehab,” Punto said. “I probably shouldn’t say this but I think I’ll be back before May.”

The Cardinals were aware of Punto’s hernia problem when they signed him in January, and are allowing him to do nothing but walk for the next 7-10 days.

“There’s a lot of season left when he comes back,” manager Tony La Russa said.

Cardinals starter Raul Valdes allowed four runs and five hits in two innings.

JUPITER, Fla. — St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright will have Tommy John surgery on his right elbow and miss the entire season.

Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak confirmed the news Thursday from spring training camp. He said he learned the severity of the injury Wednesday night after the 29-year-old pitcher sought a second opinion from Dr. Lewis Yocum in Los Angeles. A surgery date is not set.

“It’s not a real surprise to us but certainly a disappointment,” Mozeliak said. “As we look to the future now we certainly believe we still have a strong starting rotation. Now we’re going to have to look to try to fill it in terms of a fifth spot.”

Wainwright, who won 20 games last year and was runner-up for the NL Cy Young Award, felt arm stiffness after Monday’s throwing session. He had experienced soreness toward the end of last season and didn’t pitch in September. He had minor arm issues in 1998 and 2004.

His loss leaves the team with a big hole in a starting rotation that for now includes Chris Carpenter, Kyle Lohse, Jaime Garcia and Jake Westbrook.

“That’s a big guy to miss,” Lohse said. “We still got to go out there and play. Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. We still have to go out there and do our jobs.”

The Cardinals entered spring training with a rotation that Mozeliak said he would stack up against any in baseball.

“You’re losing an ace,” Mozeliak said. “It’s not something you can replace overnight. I would also say we have four quality pitchers. It’s not exactly like we have no bullets left.”

Manager Tony La Russa said Wednesday, before learning the extent of the injury, that he didn’t expect the Cardinals to try to replace Wainwright through a trade or free agent signing of someone like Kevin Millwood or possibly Pedro Martinez.

But that could change.

“You follow camps and see if something develops where it’s a good fit,” La Russa said. “But right now it’s not a good fit because were going to cover it from within. We’ll pay attention though, that’s part of what you do in spring training. We have scouts all over and we’ll watch box scores.”

La Russa has six or seven pitchers in camp who will have the opportunity to join the rotation.

“Guys are assigned at least a couple appearances over the first eight to 10 games and then a lot of those decisions make themselves,” La Russa said.

The list is headed by reliever Kyle McClellan and includes P.J. Walters, Lance Lynn, Adam Ottavino, Ian Snell, Brian Tallet and Brandon Dickson. McClellan and Tallet are penciled in to join the Cardinals bullpen. Walters, Lynn, Ottavino and Dickson helped comprise the Triple-A Memphis staff for most of last season.

La Russa sees plenty of work for the candidates during the early spring training games.

“Early it’s not a problem,” he said. “Even if you want to give a guy a look or something the squeeze comes after you’ve gone through the group twice, when you start really getting the guys (work) that are on the club. So we’ll see where we are.”

Tommy John surgery reconstructs the ulnar collateral ligament, replacing it with a tendon from elsewhere in the body. The procedure requires months of recovery. It is named after the pitcher who in 1974 became the first professional athlete to successfully have had the operation.

Mozeliak said spoke to Wainwright late Wednesday.

“Obviously he’s down,” Mozeliak said. “But he certainly understands what’s at stake and he’s disappointed but I think he’s also relieved to know what the next step looks like.”

The 6-foot-7 Wainwright went 20-11 with a 2.42 ERA last season, finishing behind Philadelphia’s Roy Halladay in Cy Young balloting while making his first All-Star team. His 2.93 ERA since 2007 trails only Halladay, and no NL pitcher threw more than Wainwright’s 463 1-3 innings during the past two seasons.

In 2009, Wainwright led the NL in wins (19), innings (233) and starts (34), winning a Gold Glove while finishing third in Cy Young voting.

— The Associated Press