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MLB Rumors: Adam Wainwright preaches urgency with Cardinals

While the St. Louis Cardinals front office and John Mozeliak wanted Cardinals fans to be patient with the team earlier this season, that time has passed. Adam Wainwright is in his final season with the Cards (by most accounts), and understands time is of the essence. The longer the Cards wait to turn things around, the more likely it is that Wainwright will spend his final postseason watching from a couch far away from the action.

“I don’t think ‘concerned’ is the right word,” Wainwright said, according to the Post-Dispatch. “I think ‘pissed’ is the right word. I think everyone is pissed at a lot of different things. We come in here and we look around and we’re like, ‘What the heck?’ Some things can’t be explained. You’ve just got to go and perform.”

The Cardinals are fresh off a sweep at the hands of the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park. They are last place in a very bad NL Central division, and there’s little hope in sight. Still, this is a team with one of the more talented rosters in baseball, making it all the more puzzling that they have under-achieved to this degree.

“More urgency wouldn’t hurt,” Wainwright continued.

St. Louis has lost five of their last six games and are 7.5 games behind the first-place Milwaukee Brewers. Everyone in the clubhouse was frustrated after Sunday’s loss in Pittsburgh, including Oli Marmol, who may soon be on the hot seat himself.

“Not even [expletive] close,” Marmol told reporters. “No, not close. It doesn’t feel that way at all. In April, we handed over a lot of games in a lot of different ways. Pittsburgh beat us. That feels different than April.”

The Cardinals are running out of options, and fast.