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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I'm not going to bitch about paying a guy who has pitched an average of 199 innings/year for the last three years and gives six innings per start the going rate, especially when all five of our top starters have all had significant injuries within the last two years.
Reliability in a pitcher is a skill the Cardinals are most in need of.
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There are two types of pitchers - those that have gotten hurt and those that will.
Leake's simply the latter. Everyone would've said Lance Lynn had that 'durability' skill right up until the point his elbow let go.
Large numbers is how you deal with pitcher injuries and frankly, it's a failure of the system that the Cardinals have had to go outside the organization and pay market money for a 4th/5th starter. They have no hitters anywhere in the system because Mozeliak spent 5 years using virtually all his draft capital on pitchers and yet here we are, still needing to spend big money on a pitcher (and still ignoring our glaring lack of offense).
I'm looking forward to seeing a contact pitcher deal with a defense that has maybe one plus player on the field (and that's Grichuk for the brief periods of time he isn't hurt and presuming that he manages to spit on enough balls in the dirt to stay in the lineup; neither of which is assured).