Are The Cardinals Taking A Risk By Having Only One Lefty Reliever In The Bullpen?

The Cardinals will open the season with only one lefthander, the esteemed Andrew Miller, in their bullpen.

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Cardinals Like Collecting Lefties 30 & Older

Since manager Tony La Russa and pitching coach Dave Duncan joined the Cardinals, veteran left-handed relievers have been a staple of every St. Louis roster.

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Leverage & Tony LaRussa

While I was thinking about looking at this I wasn't sure whether the (relative) fungibility of relief pitching made it more likely to reveal a manager's innermost thoughts and desires—i.e. he can use anybody, and there are lots of candidates for the role, so he can lean toward his older pitchers if he wants—or less, that they were so difficult to predict that when one reliever does well he's as good as any other, age be damned.

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