St. Louis Cardinals: 5 players who shouldn’t be on the team at year’s end

The St. Louis Cardinals are carrying dead weight on the roster. They have been for a while. Who is it and why should they be gone by the end of the year?

This article is not related to the way that the St. Louis Cardinals have started the year there is evidence at the beginning of the season that just compounds my original thinking, but this article has been in planning since the Spring and is based off many things that are true even if the players to be named have not started great.

After a disappointing start to the season with the opening series in Milwaukee, the team bounced back some in Pittsburgh. As many bad aspects of this team that have been showing so far (outfield defense, strikeout rate, feast or famine offense), I do believe it’s too early to make any true judgments, but trends from last season and Spring can’t help but be noticed.

The Cardinals are carrying dead weight. It has been an unfortunate consequence of the way that this team has been run for a long time. Whether it was Jonathan Broxton or Jhonny Peralta, the team never got rid of contracts that everyone knew was bad but due to some form of unknown pride or who knows what, the team waited until those players hurt the team almost irreparably at times until they cut them.

With that being said, let’s take a look at some players that are currently on the club that should simply not be by the end of the season. There are multiple different reasons why, but at the end of the day, the following players need to go in order for the Cardinals to cut the weight and perform with their best possible players. I am counting down from 5 being the least important to cut to 1 being the most.