The answers to two questions posed in a recent post by Tanner Puckett highlight the VEB community’s want for relief pitching.
To the question “Which area of the field needs the most improvement?” the community was nearly split on offense (44%) and relief pitching (45%).
In 2018, the Cardinals’ bullpen was slightly below average. They produced a 4.27 FIP (right around the league median) supporting a pretty average ERA of 4.38. Fans’ intolerance to an otherwise average pen can be attributed to Cardinal relievers holding the third-worst walk rate and seventh-worst strand rate in the majors.