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With the 28-43 start for the St. Louis Cardinals, the calls for Oli Marmol to be gone as the manager of the club are certainly warranted. After all, taking a team that won the NL Central a season ago to the bottom of the division in the 2023 season is more than a little problematic.

It doesn’t seem that the rest of the organization feels the same way — at least for now.

According to a report from USA Today MLB insider Bob Nightengale, the Cardinals have no plans to fire Marmol in the 2023 season. Though his job going into next season won’t be secure if the team’s struggles continue throughout the rest of this year, the St. Louis front office and ownership have already had three managers in the clubhouse since mid-2018 and don’t want to make it a fourth, per the report.

Nightengale also noted that big-name Cardinals stars, most notably Nolan Arenado, have come out to support Marmol during the team’s awful start, something that the front office has taken notice of as the players have put the blame on themselves, not their manager.

At the same time, though, this team is far too talented to be playing the level of baseball that they have in the 2023 campaign. Marmol has to be culpable in some capacity, even if the front office seemingly doesn’t want to admit their errors in hiring him and the negative results it’s brought about.

Alas, despite the immense frustration from the fan base, Marmol isn’t going anywhere. Now we’ll have to wait and see if that’s for better or for worse — though it’d be hard to get much worse than the Cardinals have been to begin the season.