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

後來不行又轉回後援xd

Naftali Feliz是失敗案例

也不算拉，本來就是先發養，結果當CL當太爽不想先發

不過Wilson也不持久 猛了前面幾季

後來被拉去先發其實成績不差只是TJ就回不去了轉先發後連吃五年200IP還不算持久哦?

原來他才26

我的不持久是指年年往下掉啦

我基也有個後援轉先發 哎呀 頭好痛...

單霸慘案也是...

Rosenthal（26）

以往是後援表現好才回先發 這個是後援爆炸後決定轉先發...

bard:

看成是固定報導大聯盟新聞的那位Rosenthal...

勿忘Joba

以為是KenRo

丹巴：

休斯大帝

還以爲是爆料王ken

增井表示：

NO MIND拉 例行賽最後某幾場還投到5X球欸

多半下場不好...

Ken Rosenthal XDDDDDD

Ken哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

Rosenthal轉先發還能投到100mph嗎?

我第一世界也以為是KR 想說是啥惡搞趣聞

才26!!

以前比賽要看到第九局 現在第一局完就能關電視

8BV薩克斯

真的很愛cue我耶 囧

只是嘗試性而已 反正Ros本來就是先發底的

A米 先發真的會很慘嗎?

他過去先發還真的滿慘的

Lynn也是後援轉先發 Wainy也是 Martinez也是 所以吳昇桓？

無生還又不是當先發養，怎麼可能拉先發你提到的三個人都是先發底，為了適應major先拉上來當RP

Rosenthal印象中的控球 3局應該就100球了吧…

樓上那篇文主角Jesse Chavez 先發 中繼 轉阿轉

Chavez本來就先發底的，藍鳥輪值購所以轉後援

Jesse Chavez就超好用的搖擺人，雖然成績可能不怎麼樣

Oh 當先發搞頭比較少吧？他大修過耶

ogando

怎麼轉先發的例子幾乎都跟條子有關XD

Wainwright是捨不得下放又沒有先發缺才暫時去牛棚蹲的

紅雀一堆好投手一盤好菜但教練有點西瓜 而且還簽到2020

羅三嫂去老人牛棚吧老人去簽Holland跟羅三嫂

去老人幹嘛....而且這個嘗試也是春訓而已 開季要進輪值也很難 人都滿出來了 而且文章裡就說了 不只有先發 只會還會讓他嘗試多局數的後援 大家還是要看一下內文啊

忽然想起Bard…

Daniel Bard:

想說KenRo要幹嘛惹

襪迷不禁想起丹霸…