St. Louis Cardinals fans should be concerned about the Cardinals’ failure to develop, scout, trade for, and ultimately staff, left-handed pitching, and here’s why:
I am not aware of Alexander Cartwright’s counterclockwise base-running rule being repealed.
It may sound like a joke, but think about it. Football, soccer, basketball, hockey, golf, tennis, or bowling, if you were watching on TV, and there were no uniform numbers, you would not be able to notice whether the TV station had flipped the “reverse image” or not. Not true with baseball.
To disregard the horse-sense of managers like Casey Stengel and Tommy Lasorda, that handedness matters, represents the final triumph of analytics.