STL Post-Dispatch: Mulder is set to start again

The Cardinals rejected the notion that Mark Mulder’s return to the starting rotation is an experiment, saying the lefty will be starting Wednesday because they think he can stay in the role permanently. The time for testing has passed.

“Hopefully he’ll pitch good enough to help us. We have to pitch him to see,” pitching coach Dave Duncan said. “He’s got a history. He’s a starting pitcher, and we need to get him out there with a chance to start. We’ve got two months left.”
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The opponent for his return start is also a doozy — at Philadelphia’s cozy ballpark against a lineup that leads the National League in homers off lefthanded pitchers and is second in slugging, at .465.
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“He has prepared himself to start,” general manager John Mozeliak said. “We look at what he is capable of doing when he’s right and what we need, it’s pretty exciting to put that type of arm back in our rotation.”