Relative to baseball as a whole, and relative to past iterations of the team, the St. Louis Cardinals have been relatively stable at the unofficial position of closer. While the position had some shakiness in the early 2010s—Ryan Franklin was designated for assignment in 2011, which led to a few months of Fernando Salas, which led to Jason Motte finishing 2011 as the don’t-call-him-a-closer closer, and then acting as the sole save accumulator for the 2012 Cardinals.
But once Motte was injured before the 2013 season, the role was filled by Mitchell Boggs, who had a 2011 Franklin-esque tenure despite a generally productive tenure as Jason Motte’s setup man the season before.