CINCINNATI — Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol lifted his phone with the intent to read for a few writers the recent text messages he shared with Hall of Fame baseball writer Rick Hummel but stopped when he realized it was a suggestion on how to pitch to a specific opposing batter.
It was too on the nose.
So, Marmol kept scrolling.
“I can’t read that,” he laughed. “There’s another bunt one. Another bunt one.”
Although separated by more than four decades in their age, Marmol, the 11th manager Hummel covered on the Cardinals beat, and the longtime St.