No one gasped or called for a fainting couch, but there was a palpable pause.
Had Oliver Marmol really just said that?
While discussing hard-throwing prospect Jake Walsh during spring training, the first-year Cardinals manager said he was eager to see how the right-hander responded in his next Grapefruit League relief appearance after getting knocked around the last time out. Except Marmol didn’t say Walsh got knocked around. Walsh, per the manager, “got his teeth kicked in.”
We are not used to hearing recent Cardinals managers swing away so freely with the barrel of blunt honesty.