Cardinals New Strength Is Pitching Depth

 It’s usually well past this point in the year when the complete look of any part of a team is known. However, without some highly unlikely maneuver or another freakish injury before April, the St. Louis Cardinals have aligned their pitching staff completely in mid-December. With the signing of left-handed reliever JC Romero last Thursday, the last remaining question of what direction the team would go in off the mound was resolved. However, with this scene most likely set, how good of an offering will the team really put forward?  On one half of the board, we’ve been here before. At this same point last season, Jake Westbrook was resigned and it essentially locked the starting rotation before the calendar year rolled over. However, that theory was thrown out the window in the first week of the season when Adam Wainwright tore his elbow apart in before the first Spring Training lineup was even posted, and threw the staff out of slots that they never really recaptured even by the pos...