It was a rough week for Cardinals closer Trevor Rosenthal.
After mowing through the first 87 games of the season, Rosey had a blip on Saturday night before going full-meltdown on Sunday Night Baseball.
Not the way he (or we) wanted to wrap the half-season before his first All-Star Game. Hope there’s nothing wrong with #44…
Because at least one person thinks that the team and skipper Mike Matheny might be overusing the hard throwing righty.
“For a postseason team like the Cardinals, you have to be very, very cautious with the number of times you use the guy, keep him in an inning and make sure he’s going to be available throughout the season and the playoffs.”
Rosenthal’s agent wasn’t finished.
“The key thing to managing these players like Trevor is you’ve got to watch how many times you get them up (to warm up),” Boras said during All-Star festivities at a hotel in downtown Cincinnati. “If you get them up and don’t use them, you really have to record it — otherwise you’re going to have a guy who is up 12 times and pitches seven and then the fatigue sets in and you lose him at the back end of the season.”
Man, he must think that Mike Matheny is real dumb.
Not sure what prompted Mr. Boras’ comments to STLToday’s Derrick Goold, but in Matheny’s defense, I’m almost 100% sure that he knows all of this.
He has to know this, right?
Ok. He knows this.
In a totally unrelated note, Rosenthal becomes arbitration eligible after the 2015 season.
Maybe if this gets back to the Cardinals front office, they could have Boras become a bench coach for the 2nd half of the season. Ooooh – what about co-managers? That’d be interesting.
Mike had a good run, but it looks like Boras is calling the shots now.
You’ve been warned.
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