When a well-known starting pitcher suffers a spring-training setback, there will be calls to patch over the crack via shop or swap.
“It does not,” president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said by phone when asked if the turbulence encountered by Carlos Martinez this week would nudge the Cardinals toward adding starting pitching from outside the organization.
2. The Cardinals are also confident in their rotation if Martinez can’t do that, and that is not a calm that was concocted after the 27-year-old righthander’s most recent health scare.
There would have been a time when that last sentence boggled the brain.