REGARDLESS of how the past two appearances for Carlos Martinez have gone, the St. Louis Cardinals need to stick with the 27-year-old closer.
If you’ve made it past the title without commenting something mean, congratulations and thank you. Many people won’t make it even this far and that says more about them than it does you or myself for writing this and daring to support this opinion. Maybe I don’t even hold this opinion at all and just wanted to go through the literary exercise of defending an unpopular opinion. Who knows?
In any case, there is more than enough evidence to argue that the Cardinals need to stick with Carlos Martinez in the 9th inning in Game 4 of the NLDS and (hopefully) beyond.