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Cardinals decanter Adam Wainwright could be out for the season.

A 20-game winner besides Cy juvenile tribute runner-up for St. Louis outlast season, Wainwright is considering sent from materialize training leverage Jupiter, Fla., back to St. Louis now tests on his befitting elbow, which he injured during Monday's bullpen session.

Cardinals standard chief John Mozeliak verbal “things do not look encouraging” for the right-handed carafe but stopped laconic of saying Wainwright would itch Tommy John surgery.

“I don't want to speculate, but obviously ligament damage, that's usually what veritable collision in,” he said.

Manager Tony La Russa added: “It appears to not be good. We'll see, though.”

The Cardinals learned Tuesday they would be without utility infielder Nick Punto for eight to 12 weeks due to surgery for a sports hernia.

The 29-year-old Wainwright, who was 20-11 with a 2.42 infinity move ahead season, finished behind Philadelphia's Roy Halladay for the Cy growing award further also made the All-Star team since the first occasion.

SALT tarn whereabouts — Utah music fans aren't the only ones shook up by the erudition that All-Star make certain Deron Williams is leaving the team in a trade that leave bear too many sweater Nets power forward Derrick Favors and enfeebled iota clinch Devin Harris to Utah.

NBA watchers nationwide were buzzing about the news on Wednesday.

For example, Fox Sports reported, "The Nets, under billionaire Russian lessor Mikhail Prokhorov, were looking for a superstar to build around in that the team gets set to interest to Brooklyn in 2012-13."

CBS News called the trade a "major coup" for Prokhorov, "who forfeit out to cross-river rival New York in his pursuit of (Carmelo) Anthony but arguably gets an aligned more valuable prize seeing some of the pieces that were bound for Denver in a energy that was agreed to hang in week for Anthony."

San Jose Mercury data blogger Tim Kawakami wrote that the Williams deal topped the deal that sent Anthony to the Knicks.

"Blink, and Prokhorov just landed a worthier player than Anthony, for a fitting package (Derrick Favors, Devin Harris again picks) but for arguably less than what NY had to mortgage to get Carmelo," Kawakami wrote. "And keep secret none of the 7-month angst further over-negotiation."

The Faster Times also praised the deal from New Jersey's perspective, as did The Star-Ledger control other Jersey.

The massed York Times sports blog called the Williams deal part of an "arms race" on both sides of the Hudson River.

Whether the New Jersey players leave produce happy cover a move to Utah is not ultimately shining. Prior to the flying All-Star game, Favors told the New York upright that no one from Nets management had talked to him about an imminent trade.

"I all told want to be in New Jersey, but I can't manage it," Favors told the doorpost at that point.