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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1775854" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-notebook-former-regular-shortstop-dejong-has-been-wally-pipped/article_991ac008-7d06-50da-8d65-d537c8b2a76d.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel" target="_blank">Rick Hummel</a></p><p>The Paul DeJong fans should not be holding their breath for an imminent return from Memphis by the Cardinals’ regular shortstop. Or former regular shortstop, that is.</p><p>“Now it becomes a need,” president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said Friday, likely referring to the fact that somebody would have to be hurt or slumping badly before there would be a recall. With DeJong at Memphis, where he has banged 10 homers but hasn’t hit for much average, Gold Glove second baseman Tommy Edman has moved almost seamlessly to shortstop for the big-league club and rookies Nolan Gorman and Brendan Donovan have taken care of second base.</p><p>“The way Tommy Edman’s playing, and we’re getting a lot of production out of our second basemen, (DeJong) is going to have to hit his way back,” Mozeliak said. “It’s really been a situation where he would go down, get himself right and then come back. In the meantime, there’s been a little bit of a Wally Pipp situation where the players who have taken over those positions have been thriving.</p><p></p><p>“We’re not in a place just to displace them at the moment.”</p><p>For you baseball historians, Wally Pipp was the New York Yankees’ first baseman in June 1925 — and a good one, too — when he was replaced one day by 21-year-old Lou Gehrig after Pipp complained of a headache. Gehrig went on to play 2,130 games in succession.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1775854, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-notebook-former-regular-shortstop-dejong-has-been-wally-pipped/article_991ac008-7d06-50da-8d65-d537c8b2a76d.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel']Rick Hummel[/URL] The Paul DeJong fans should not be holding their breath for an imminent return from Memphis by the Cardinals’ regular shortstop. Or former regular shortstop, that is. “Now it becomes a need,” president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said Friday, likely referring to the fact that somebody would have to be hurt or slumping badly before there would be a recall. With DeJong at Memphis, where he has banged 10 homers but hasn’t hit for much average, Gold Glove second baseman Tommy Edman has moved almost seamlessly to shortstop for the big-league club and rookies Nolan Gorman and Brendan Donovan have taken care of second base. “The way Tommy Edman’s playing, and we’re getting a lot of production out of our second basemen, (DeJong) is going to have to hit his way back,” Mozeliak said. “It’s really been a situation where he would go down, get himself right and then come back. In the meantime, there’s been a little bit of a Wally Pipp situation where the players who have taken over those positions have been thriving. “We’re not in a place just to displace them at the moment.” For you baseball historians, Wally Pipp was the New York Yankees’ first baseman in June 1925 — and a good one, too — when he was replaced one day by 21-year-old Lou Gehrig after Pipp complained of a headache. Gehrig went on to play 2,130 games in succession. [/QUOTE]
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