Well, Bob Reed, there’s 26 players on a Big League roster and all fingers were pointed at Contreras for the early season failures that continued to be present for the entire 162 regular season games. Wainwright got slapped around all year and Flaherty continues to get slapped around in Baltimore. It’s glaringly obvious to me that the gutless Cardinal brass saw an opportunity to deflect their own dismal failures onto Contreras, and they pounced on that opportunity. The pitching was horrendous across the entire board all season long and I feel it’s now crystal clear that Contreras had almost nothing to do with lack of a solitary pitcher either in the 5 man or the BP that had the ability to consistently record outs. In my view, both Molina and Bench could have been situated behind HP and the pitching on the ’23 edition would have still been worse than lousy. My conclusion is that the leadership of this team that both allowed and promoted the placing of blame on Contreras are entirely without anything that constitutes simple decency.