Early in the season, I had what I thought was an interesting idea: with an eight-man Cardinal bullpen apparently set to be a reality all year, and in light of my personal doubts that Mike Matheny actually had a good plan for utilizing such a thing, I decided to post weekly updates every Monday on who was in the bullpen and how they were used in the previous week. That way, a plan or lack thereof would be easily discerned. What a good project!
I abandoned it after oh, two weeks.* The first time I left it out of my Monday column, it’s because there had been too many off days that week — with days off (and rainouts) keeping most of the bullpen fresh, there wasn’t anything interesting about which relievers had thrown and when.