One less potential Cardinals starter to worry about. KK is heading back to the KBO and is signing a 4-year deal with a team there.
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Seemed likely to happen before the lockout, and the lockout pretty much ensured it. I wonder if we'll start seeing a some more of the lower and middle tier free agents start making the jump to Korea, Japan and elsewhere for at least this season, as this lockout drags on.
Cardinals Sign Drew VerHagen To Two-Year Deal
Not a sexy move but functional. Funny. I just watched Tom Selleck in Mr Baseball a few nights ago.
Not a sexy move but functional. Funny. I just watched Tom Selleck in Mr Baseball a few nights ago.
DaChief4ever
- Urbana
Wonder who the DH is gonna be this year.....
My guess is Yepez and Nootbaar will have the majority of DH at-bats to start the season, and when Gorman gets promoted he will get ABs there as well, when he's not playing in the field.
Yepez is an exciting prospect who DH helps a lot. Not a great fielder, strictly 1B if he had to play in the field, but huge power potential. Hit 22 HRs in Memphis (AAA) last season, and another 5 in Springfield (AA). 0.969 OPS between both leagues with his AAA numbers actually being a little better. Also mashed in the Arizona Fall league as well.
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Long time rumor had been Pujols coming back on a one-year deal as a DH to end his career in St. Louis.
It's possible, and we are reportedly one of the three teams that have reached out to him, but I'd be surprised honestly if it happened.
Cardinals make first move in Albert Pujols reunion talks
The St. Louis Cardinals have reportedly shown interest in a possible reunion that would bring Albert Pujols home to the team and city where it all began.
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I don't think he's a better option than internal candidates, and if we were to sign someone for the DH role it would be insane to spend that amount of money on another right-handed bat. That's almost all we have right now.
The Rockies appear to be the most interested team and that's honestly probably the best fit. That team is going nowhere, but having a first-ballot Hall of Famer moving up the all-time HR charts should sell tickets. Since they're not competing, they won't care about his sub-300 OBP. And Pujols can hit a lot more HRs there than at Busch.
If he bounces back to his pre-2021 numbers it's a decent signing, but if this takes us out of the running for an impact reliever like Tepera I'm very underwhelmed.
Wish him the best. Had a great start to his career here that was unfortunately derailed by injuries.
A lot of chatter on some of the Cardinal fan pages. with opinions equally divided. My unimformed opinion, that ship has left port.
Thanks Carlos. All the best to you.
I get it for nostalgia reasons, but I think it'd be a bad baseball move. He's only servicable against lefty pitching (his OPS against RHP last season was an abysmal 0.500). Which means you'd have to platoon him, but I'm not sure how receptive he'd be to that. Plus we don't have a lot of great lefty platoon partners for him. If we're going to spend on a DH it makes so much more sense to bring in a left handed batter (like Schwarber) and platoon him with internal options against lefty pitching.
Totally agree. It is no longer 2005.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cardinals notebook: Reliever Reyes has sore shoulder examined after something turns up in physical
Cardinals closer in 2021 says he isn't concerned and hopes to throw in a few days.
Rick Hummel
JUPITER, Fla. — Alex Reyes has been through worse. At least that’s what he thinks. He’s had elbow surgery and a lat muscle tear and a right pectoral injury and a broken left pinkie finger.
Just as the media was arriving at the Cardinals’ complex before the first day of spring training workouts on Monday, Reyes was walking toward his car, headed, as he later revealed, to the Jupiter Medical Center to have his sore right (pitching) shoulder examined after his club-administered physical raised a red flag.
Reyes, 27, the Cardinals’ closer for most of last season but earmarked as a long reliever or even starter this season, hasn’t thrown off a mound since the end of last season as he rested his shoulder.
“Just dealing with some stuff from last season. Hopefully, nothing major,” said Reyes, who did play some catch before coming here. “I feel good. Just checking off some of the boxes before I get some live throws in.”
Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said Reyes was “getting an extended (medical) look.”
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another season , another Reyes health alert
Cardinals notebook: Reliever Reyes has sore shoulder examined after something turns up in physical
Cardinals closer in 2021 says he isn't concerned and hopes to throw in a few days.www.stltoday.com
Rick Hummel
JUPITER, Fla. — Alex Reyes has been through worse. At least that’s what he thinks. He’s had elbow surgery and a lat muscle tear and a right pectoral injury and a broken left pinkie finger.
Just as the media was arriving at the Cardinals’ complex before the first day of spring training workouts on Monday, Reyes was walking toward his car, headed, as he later revealed, to the Jupiter Medical Center to have his sore right (pitching) shoulder examined after his club-administered physical raised a red flag.
Reyes, 27, the Cardinals’ closer for most of last season but earmarked as a long reliever or even starter this season, hasn’t thrown off a mound since the end of last season as he rested his shoulder.
“Just dealing with some stuff from last season. Hopefully, nothing major,” said Reyes, who did play some catch before coming here. “I feel good. Just checking off some of the boxes before I get some live throws in.”
Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said Reyes was “getting an extended (medical) look.”
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another season , another Reyes health alert
So, are we ever going to do something?
Fine if Matz is the 2021 version, not so fine if the 2020 version.
A relief pitcher whose best years were in Japan, when he STUNK as a major leaguer.
A relief pitcher last in the bigs in 2018.
A relief pitcher who has been at least mediocre or slightly above.
Though it was really fun, I ALMOST wish the 17 game streak hadn't happened.
And already Flaherty and Reyes are already bigger question marks than they were going into Spring Training.
Since baseball isn't very profitable, I'm starting to wish DeWitt would sell the team.
Fine if Matz is the 2021 version, not so fine if the 2020 version.
A relief pitcher whose best years were in Japan, when he STUNK as a major leaguer.
A relief pitcher last in the bigs in 2018.
A relief pitcher who has been at least mediocre or slightly above.
Though it was really fun, I ALMOST wish the 17 game streak hadn't happened.
And already Flaherty and Reyes are already bigger question marks than they were going into Spring Training.
Since baseball isn't very profitable, I'm starting to wish DeWitt would sell the team.
Unfortunately DeWitt has determined he's going to make the most amount of money by spending just enough to compete for a wild card spot. That's the sense I get.
Im not that upset about the reliever signings. I wanted a big name reliever and then I read an article the other day about why that’s not a smart thing to spend on, because reliever productivity fluctuates so wildly. Good relievers become bad, and bad relievers become good, and it's just hard to project. Our recent experience with guys like Andrew Miller and Brett Cecil are good examples of this.
But not spending on a front of rotation starter was, I think, a big mistake. I think that's the piece we needed to really compete.
Cardinals signing Corey Dickerson to a one-year deal.
I'm not opposed to it. Gives a lefty option off the bench that the team hasn't really had.
In a vacuum I'd agree, but there are opportunity costs involved with this move.
1. Prevents us from signing anyone else to DH. I didn't think they were going to get Schwarber. But they should have gotten Schwarber.
2. Justifies not calling up Gorman to DH. And Gorman would very likely be a better left handed bat than Dickerson, who at this point in his career is a replacement level batter.
3. May require another MLB ready bat like Yepez or Nootbaar to start the season in the minors.
I don't get why we've been talking up internal DH options only to sign someone arguably worse than said internal options. Either sign someone you know will make an impact, or wait until the trade deadline to see whether the guys you have are getting it done.
Seeing a lot of rumors on twitter that Noot may be involved in a trade in the works. The most specific rumor appears to be a deal to the A's for Sean Manaea. As much as I like Noot, I think that would be a great addition. Would certainly explain the Dickerson signing.
Flaherty out at least two weeks and Reyes out til late May or early June with shoulder injuries: https://www.mlb.com/news/jack-flaherty-to-miss-2-weeks-with-shoulder-injury