Remember when the St. Louis Cardinals traded for J.A. Happ and Jon Lester last year and brought in T.J. McFarland and Luis Garcia and Wade LeBlanc as reinforcements? Many of us were (rightfully) frustrated by a staff that couldn’t seem to throw strikes and the lack of reinforcements to that staff.
The reinforcements eventually came from the scrap heap, but it was curious that a team well-known for it’s ability to churn pitching depth through the system was unable to find quality help from Memphis.
Don’t let this make you think the Cards have lost their edge on developing pitchers.