Insisting that there is both a "style" and "standard" that his team will meet, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol detailed why he was critical of Tyler O'Neill's baserunning Tuesday night and said a "window" of competition had been opened.
"There is a standard, and it's here," Marmol said Wednesday morning in his office, holding his left hand up to show the height of the standard. "You meet it, you play. You don’t meet it, you don’t play."
O'Neill is not in the lineup for Wednesday's series finale.
The outfielder told reporters that it was a scheduled day off, one that had been discussed earlier in the week.