Carpe closer.
“I have no particular pecking order — I want to see someone seize the job,” Cardinals general manager Michael Girsch said. “And I really don’t care who it is.”
Here the Cardinals are — late August and still in the playoff mix — and the manager sometimes scorned for bullpen management must save the season … by managing his bullpen.
Mike Matheny has pressed some of the right buttons this season, and this team, with all of its roster redundancies and offensive underachievement, is still hanging around. But the Trevor Rosenthal news — Tommy John, out for year — puts increasing pressure on Matheny.