Not even Dave Duncan could turn Franklin's year around.
The Ryan Franklin drama has come to an end.
After another hard-to-watch outing last night, stltoday.com’s Joe Strauss announced that the team finally decided to make the move.
Other options were considered — even a stint on the disabled list. But after talking it over, the Cardinals staff decided it was in the best interest of the team to unconditionally release the former closer. Manager Tony La Russa informed the team of the change in a meeting prior to Wednesday night’s game against the Baltimore Orioles.
Joey Nowak reported the official MLB.com announcement later this afternoon.
Multiple club officials said following St. Louis’ 6-2 win against the Orioles on Tuesday night that a decision of some sort was looming. It came down less than 24 hours later, as Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak made the announcement prior to Wednesday’s game at Baltimore.
Franklin was solid as the closer in 2010. He was 6-2, earning 27 saves in 29 chances. He gave up seven home runs all season.
This year, he never got it going, posting an 8.56 ERA and giving up 9 homers in 27.2 innings pitched.
While it’s tough to see it come to this, ultimately, the move was inevitable.
The Cardinals have yet to announce what corresponding moves will be made.
Franky just didn’t have it this year. And after reading those 2010 numbers and know it was an All-Star… it makes me sick. Sure wish they could have made up something so he could have disabled it and rehabbed. But that wasn’t in the Cards… so to speak!
I made an in general statement on twitter that I am loving the hypocrisy of people who blasted him last night but are blasting people today who aren’t saying he’s a good guy.
I may have to stay off twitter tonight! lol
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It’s like when somebody infamous dies. People forget all the bad things that were said about him, and excoriate those who bring up those bad things, like the villain is somehow a saint just because he died.
Well, Ryan Franklin lived on borrowed time as a closer during his entire time in St. Louis. His All-Star appearance in 2009 was due to luck. No, really, he had a superhuman walk rate and his BABIP was way below the league average.
Franklin was an average pitcher turned into a closer by Tony LaRussa, who thought he could create the next Dennis Eckersley, proving that LaRussa never knew what he had in The Eck in the first place.
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