{"id":451513,"date":"2025-11-27T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/451513\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:35:12","slug":"st-louis-cardinals-eye-marmol-extension-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/451513\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals Eye Marmol Extension, But Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I am mystified about a new report that the St. Louis Cardinals are already talking to manager Oli Marmol about an extension. I cannot come up with a good reason to explain the reason why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I just came across this article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/cardinals-have-had-preliminary-extension-talks-with-manager-oli-marmol.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB Trade Rumors<\/a> that appears to be based off of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/professional\/mlb\/cardinals\/article_f479a4c1-e8b1-4cc9-b0a8-54bf0a755c33.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Derrick Goold story<\/a> from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It infers that the St. Louis Cardinals have started what is termed preliminary extension talks. The word \u201cpreliminary\u201d is key or at least I hope so. While I\u2019m not among the full-on Oli Marmol haters, I cannot understand the logic behind this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/marmool99.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oli Marmol\u2019s performance<\/a>, he has an overall record of 325 wins and 323 losses during his 4-year tenure as the St. Louis Cardinals manager. That\u2019s practically the definition of mediocre. But, instead of focusing on bullpen management or other managerial performance to debate whether Oli Marmol is worthy of being offered a new multi-year contract, I think an issue the St. Louis Cardinals really need to face is marketing. Surely they are aware by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/teams\/STL\/attend.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the huge downturn in attendance last season<\/a> that there is mammoth fan discontent with the previous direction of the team and Oli Marmol is a big part of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I have been impressed with new President of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom and his ability to communicate a new direction for the Cardinals and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vivaelbirdos.com\/st-louis-cardinals-hot-stove-offseason\/65822\/report-st-louis-cardinals-trading-sonny-gray-to-boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his actions of already dealing Sonny Gray<\/a> to the Boston Red Sox. That\u2019s why I am mystified why he would even consider extending Oli Marmol during this key time. Why not just let him complete his current contract for the upcoming season and see where the St. Louis Cardinals are in a few months? This just makes no sense to me. Let\u2019s hope that word \u201cpreliminary\u201d is accurate and this isn\u2019t a deal that will be completed anytime soon. Otherwise, I predict you\u2019re going to see a next-level fan revolt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am mystified about a new report that the St. Louis Cardinals are already talking to manager Oli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,40834,4,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-451513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-cardinals-rumors","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-st-louis","13":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","14":"tag-stlouis","15":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115620513425951049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}