I feel St. Louis is going to win the NL Central division with relative ease because its strengths play so well in a division in which the other five teams have mirror image weaknesses. Even allowing for some interleague differences, essentially all six teams play the same opponents. Given that, how are the Cardinals possibly going to be outscored by other NL Central offenses? Through 40 games, the Cardinals are the only team in the division whose batters walk more than the league average. The same batters also strike out at the lowest rate in the division. Those skills tend to stabilize very quickly so it’s safe to assume that even before they hit the ball, the Cardinals will own a sizeable competitive advantage versus their peers for the entire year.