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As spring training exercises got underway on Wednesday,
the team’s head of baseball operations stated, “I am not overly concerned with age in this current state, unlike like our upcoming election.” “We definitely felt like we were lacking a lot of experience from last year. Therefore, it is often rather normal to try to combine age and expertise.
With 71-91, St. Louis finished fifth in the NL Central last year—their lowest number of losses since 1990 and its first losing season since 2007.
The Cardinals signed three starting pitchers as free agents: Sonny Gray agreed to a three-year, $75 million deal, while Kyle Gibson and Lance Lynn signed one-year contracts worth $13 million and $11 million, respectively.
Miles Mikolas (35) and Steven Matz (33 in May) are holdover rotation hopefuls that Lynn (37 in May), Gibson (36) and Gray (34) join.
“Those are just guys who know what it’s like to play from pole to pole and who know what it’s like to have to take the ball for thirty starts,” Mozeliak remarked. These guys have all experienced that. They are aware of that, and that will just be extremely
In the AL Cy Young Award voting, Gray, who was 8-8 with a 2.79 ERA with the Minnesota Twins the previous season, came in second to Gerrit Cole of the New York Yankees. Oliver Marmol, the manager, and Mozeliak observed his bullpen session on Tuesday.
That’s just what Mozeliak stated he hoped to see. “To anyone who witnessed that bullpen yesterday, he resembles someone who is simply expressing what he is going to do and what he wants done.” After that, he assigns himself a grade based on how well he performed.
Last season, while playing for the Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers, Lynn gave up a major league-high 44 home runs.
