Not just because he hit balls over the fence from both sides of the plate Monday night during a workout, but Tommy Edman will be hard to keep out of Cardinals manager Mike Shildt’s lineup. But Shildt said it wouldn’t be hard at all.
“I don’t have plans to keep him out of the lineup,” Shildt said, smiling. “I don’t know what your lineup looks like.”
Shildt, saying Edman was a regular, did not say Edman had a regular position, listing third base, shortstop, second base and designated hitter as probabilities with little or no emphasis on outfielding, which Edman did quite a bit of in his rookie season.