LISTEN: Flaherty reflects on historic second half of 2019, how he'll use it this year

JUPITER, Fla. (KMOX) - If you look at the last 15 starts of Jack Flaherty's 2019 season and throw it up against the best 15 games of Bob Gibson's 1968 season – one of the greatest of all time – it holds up pretty miraculously. 

Of the 100 innings that Flaherty pitched in after the All-Star break, 91 were scoreless. He didn't allow a single run in nine of those 15 starts. He allowed only 11 runs in those games for 0.91 ERA – which is the third-best post-All-Star break ERA in MLB history.

He will start the first game of Grapefruit League play for St. Louis on Saturday against the New York Mets. 

Mike Shildt announces Jack Flaherty will start Saturday in the #STLCards 1st Grapefruit League game pic.twitter.com/rSs9IEr67n

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