A Rookie Starting Pitcher Entering The Circle Of Trust...

With an array of injuries to the St. Louis Cardinals' pitching staff, 24 year old rookie, Mitchell Boggs, got called up to the big show in early June. Pitchers are a unified bunch, and we often wondered what it was like for a new guy joining the squad midway through a season. We found our answer below. 1st Inning Looper, Wainwright, Pineiro, and Lohse - all have Cardinals' rookie pitcher Mitchell Boggs in age, tenure, self esteem among peers, and dugout seat altitude. To put it in Jack Byrnes/Greg Focker terms, Mitchell Boggs is definitely outside the proverbial "circle of trust". 4th Inning Status quo inside the "circle". Even invalids are coming up to the group and welcomed with open arms. No one has offered the rookie a "cool" dugout stool - he's left to fend for himself. In this case, "fend for yourself" consists of plopping your ass on a debunk batting helmet that Troy Glaus slammed against the wa...