The St. Louis Cardinals dismissed Derek Lilliquist as their pitching coach at the end of 2017. While many fans would have preferred that the dismissal had befallen manager Mike Matheny who has allowed the team to slip further and further away from the grandeur that Cardinals Nation expects.
Enter the time of Mike Maddux. During the slumberous offseason, the St. Louis Cardinals- like almost all other clubs in MLB- made few moves but among the ones they did make, the addition of Mike Maddux as the new pitching coach may well ring the strongest of them all.