The St. Louis Cardinals introduced the extension of Oliver Marmol’s contract by way of the 2026 marketing campaign.
Marmol’s deal was set to run out after 2024, however the group believes in him and what he brings to the desk, so they’re giving him extra time and peace of thoughts.
The opinion of the Playing cards’ entrance workplace, nonetheless, is just not essentially that of the followers.
The choice to increase Marmol was, for the dearth of a greater phrase, controversial amongst Cardinals supporters.
It’s definitely odd timing: the entrance workplace is rewarding a 71-91 season (final place within the NL Central, and the worst season by the Playing cards in a very long time) with a two-year extension.
Listed below are among the followers’ tweets concerning the deal:
Hearth Mozeliak and hearth sure man marmol
However why
A most pointless extension pic.twitter.com/eNaxqpTDpF
I’m beginning to hate you guys..
With out proving something. What may presumably go improper? This group is smug and dysfunctional.
Even probably the most controversial opinions and sizzling takes normally have not less than a few constructive opinions.
When you have a look within the replies part of the Cardinals’ tweet saying Marmol’s extension, you gained’t discover a single tweet in assist of that call.
In his favor, he did have a 93-69 marketing campaign in 2022, wherein his group was eradicated within the Wild Card spherical.
Nonetheless, final yr’s debacle was an excessive amount of to deal with for almost all of followers.
In any case, Marmol can solely accomplish that a lot concerning the woeful pitching workers he was given in 2023.
The entrance workplace has introduced in a number of reinforcements in that space, most notably Sonny Grey, Lance Lynn, Kyle Gibson, and Keynan Middleton.
Nonetheless, 2024 will characterize a stiff check for St. Louis and Marmol.
Followers gained’t tolerate such a extremely disappointing season once more.