With three pitchers competing for the number five starter on the Cardinals, the team is having a difficult time finding enough innings for each to pitch.

“We’re going to have to get a little creative,” La Russa said Tuesday after Reyes and Ponson combined for eight innings of a victory against the New York Yankees. “If we had an easy answer now to solve this, that would not be ideal because that means one of these guys would have taken himself out of the competition. That hasn’t happened. So, we have to find a way to make it work. We have to find starts for Reyes and Wainwright.”

Although he’s only pitched in relief, Wainwright’s pitched the best so far. Maybe La Russa should give him one of Reyes’ starts, since Reyes has been hit pretty hard so far.
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