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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Descalso really pissed me off tonight. Bases loaded, bottom of the 9th, a walk wins the game against a pitcher who can't throw strikes and who walked the two previous batters and he comes out hacking.
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That AB was pathetic, horrendous. I don't understand why Larussa and now Matheny loves the guy. Carpenter has proved he is just as good as Descalso and he can hit. He drags the team down. WTF you swing at that shit after walking two batters..... thats criminal
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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Axford threw five pitches in that AB and none of them were strikes. Absolutely shameful situational awareness and it cost the Cardinals the game.
Now that Garcia has gone down with his annual injury to the labia in his shoulder, what do you do?
Option 1: Promote an undeserving Joe Kelly to the rotation (looks like this is the route they are going)
Option 2: Bring up Wacha
Option 3: Hope Boggs comes back from his section 8, send Rosenthal down to stretch him out, and bring him back sometime around July as a starter.
Westbrook needs to get healthy quickly, otherwise too many of our innings will be eaten by arms that aren't ready for a 200 inning workload.
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Has to be Wacha. Gast isn't ready to pitch 7 innings at the ML level. Kelly was good as a starter for a while. Does anyone really trust him? Martinez isn't ready for starter duty.
But, at least we have options. Most clubs that lose 3 out of their 5 starters would be in big trouble.