The Cardinals intend to stretch out former closer Trevor Rosenthal as a starte
r, as Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. While it seems he
’ll have at least some chance of earning a rotation spot, it may be that a mo
re flexible relief role could be the end result of the experiment.
Rosenthal has long been seen as a candidate to attempt a return to starting, b
ut it has never really been pursued since he held such a critical role in the
Cards’ pen. But skyrocketing walk rates and some injuries pushed Rosenthal ou
t of the ninth inning last year, and Seung Hwan Oh has now firmly taken the re
ins as the closer. Still, St. Louis has a lot riding on Rosenthal, who MLBTR p
rojects to earn $6.3MM in arbitration.
“It terms of role we’re going to see how things go, but we’re open to anyth
ing,” GM John Mozeliak says of Rosenthal. “It was something that he has had
a desire to do. As we were looking at all the different moving pieces it doesn
’t hurt to have an extra arm, and in the past we’ve felt like an extra arm w
ould help. As you start to think about bullpen structure and multiple innings
it makes sense to have people prepared to do more than just a one-inning stint
.”
Rosenthal certainly has the high-octane stuff to possibly feature in the kind
of flexible, sometimes multi-inning role in which Andrew Miller flourished for
the Indians. Michael Wacha, too, could evolve into that kind of weapon for th
e Cards, Goold notes, even if the team hopes he’ll be prepared to take a full
starter’s load in 2017. With at least five other viable rotation candidates,
though, perhaps a modified role could be a way to receive value from Wacha wh
ile allowing him to build his strength and return to his prior form.
It’s notable, too, that the Cards have yet another theoretical option for a m
ulti-inning role that’s more than just long relief. Jaime Garcia had his shar
e of struggles last year, as did Wacha, but has produced top-tier results when
healthy in the recent past. Of course, his balky shoulder may make flexible r
elief usage a dicey proposition. Garcia could still be flipped in a trade, but
the team already exercised his option and seems currently slated to utilize h
im in some kind of relief capacity (assuming, at least, that Lance Lynn return
s healthy next spring).

Naftali Feliz

后来不行又转回后援xd

Naftali Feliz是失败案例

也不算拉，本来就是先发养，结果当CL当太爽不想先发

不过Wilson也不持久 猛了前面几季

后来被拉去先发其实成绩不差只是TJ就回不去了转先发后连吃五年200IP还不算持久哦?

原来他才26

我的不持久是指年年往下掉啦

我基也有个后援转先发 哎呀 头好痛...

单霸惨案也是...

Rosenthal（26）

以往是后援表现好才回先发 这个是后援爆炸后决定转先发...

bard:

看成是固定报导大联盟新闻的那位Rosenthal...

勿忘Joba

以为是KenRo

丹巴：

休斯大帝

还以为是爆料王ken

增井表示：

NO MIND拉 例行赛最后某几场还投到5X球欸

多半下场不好...

Ken Rosenthal XDDDDDD

Ken哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

Rosenthal转先发还能投到100mph吗?

我第一世界也以为是KR 想说是啥恶搞趣闻

才26!!

以前比赛要看到第九局 现在第一局完就能关电视

8BV萨克斯

真的很爱cue我耶 囧

只是尝试性而已 反正Ros本来就是先发底的

A米 先发真的会很惨吗?

他过去先发还真的满惨的

Lynn也是后援转先发 Wainy也是 Martinez也是 所以吴升桓？

无生还又不是当先发养，怎么可能拉先发你提到的三个人都是先发底，为了适应major先拉上来当RP

Rosenthal印象中的控球 3局应该就100球了吧…

楼上那篇文主角Jesse Chavez 先发 中继 转阿转

Chavez本来就先发底的，蓝鸟轮值购所以转后援

Jesse Chavez就超好用的摇摆人，虽然成绩可能不怎么样

Oh 当先发搞头比较少吧？他大修过耶

ogando

怎么转先发的例子几乎都跟条子有关XD

Wainwright是舍不得下放又没有先发缺才暂时去牛棚蹲的

红雀一堆好投手一盘好菜但教练有点西瓜 而且还签到2020

罗三嫂去老人牛棚吧老人去签Holland跟罗三嫂

去老人干嘛....而且这个尝试也是春训而已 开季要进轮值也很难 人都满出来了 而且文章里就说了 不只有先发 只会还会让他尝试多局数的后援 大家还是要看一下内文啊

忽然想起Bard…

Daniel Bard:

想说KenRo要干嘛惹

袜迷不禁想起丹霸…