Editing Bruce Sutter (section)

===St. Louis Cardinals (1981–1984) ===
Sutter was traded to the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] for [[Leon Durham]], [[Ken Reitz]], and a player to be named later in December 1980.<ref>{{cite news |title=Relief pitcher Bruce Sutter, traded by Chicago to St.... |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/12/16/Relief-pitcher-Bruce-Sutter-traded-by-Chicago-to-St/7034345790800/ |access-date=December 9, 2024 |work=United Press International |date=December 18, 1980}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tuesday's Sports Transactions |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/12/09/Tuesdays-Sports-Transactions/7783345186000/ |access-date=December 9, 2024 |work=United Press International |date=December 9, 1980}}</ref> He made his fifth consecutive All-Star Game in 1981.<ref name=BR>{{cite web|title=Bruce Sutter Statistics and History|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/suttebr01.shtml|publisher=[[Baseball-Reference.com]]|access-date=April 7, 2014}}</ref> He recorded 25 saves, registered a 2.62 ERA, and finished fifth in the NL Cy Young Award voting.<ref name=BR/>

Sutter registered 36 saves in 1982, finishing third in the Cy Young Award voting.<ref name=BR/> Sutter earned the save in the pennant-clinching victory in the [[1982 National League Championship Series|NLCS]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1982-10-11 |title=Sutter, Herr In Series, Garber Out |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lancaster-new-era-sutter-herr-in-series/157971888/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |work=Lancaster New Era |page=13 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The Cardinals won the [[1982 World Series]] and Sutter is credited with two saves in that Series, including the Series-clinching save in Game 7 which ended with a strikeout of [[Gorman Thomas]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Reeves |first=Jim |date=1982-10-21 |title=St. Louis' Porter gets MVP |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-st-louis-port/157971971/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |page=31 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

In 1983, Sutter recorded a 9–10 win–loss record and a 4.23 ERA; while his save total declined to 21.<ref name=BR/> In April of that year, Sutter executed a rare unassisted [[pickoff]] play: as [[Bill Madlock]] of the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] took a long lead off first base, he became distracted by Cardinals first baseman [[Keith Hernandez]]. Sutter ran off the mound to tag Madlock out.<ref name=Mulligan>{{cite book|last1=Mulligan|first1=Stephen|title=Were You There?: Over 300 Wonderful, Weird, and Wacky Moments from Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium|date=2013|publisher=[[Dorrance Publishing Co.]]|isbn=978-1480905023|page=131|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rzP9vlQFkIkC|access-date=July 20, 2014}}</ref>

Sutter, who won both the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award and The Sporting News Reliever of the Year Award again in 1981, 1982, and 1984,<ref name=":0" /> tied [[Dan Quisenberry]]'s major league record for most saves in a season (45) in 1984. (His MLB record was broken by [[Dave Righetti]] (46) in 1986 and his NL record was broken by [[Lee Smith (baseball)|Lee Smith]] (47) in 1991.) During Sutter's record-breaking season, he pitched a career-high {{fract|122|2|3}} innings. It was one of five seasons in which Sutter threw more than 100 innings.<ref name=Kurkjian>{{cite web|last1=Kurkjian|first1=Tim|title=Mastery of splitter led to Sutter's success|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/story?id=2531648|website=[[ESPN.com]]|date=July 28, 2006 |access-date=July 20, 2014}}</ref>