Once he shook the soreness and limits out of his left arm and tried to race the calendar last fall to make a return to the Cardinals, Austin Gomber searched for somewhere, anywhere he could get in a game.
Now it’s the Cardinals turn to figure how to fit him in.
Gomber and righthander Daniel Ponce de Leon have started summer where they finished spring — as hard for the Cardinals to ignore as it is to find them a specific role on the staff. With four superb innings Tuesday night at Busch Stadium in an intrasquad game, Gomber, like Ponce de Leon, continues to prep for the season as a starter.