12:06pm: Gyorko has a mild hamstring strain, tweets Langosch, who adds that the Cardinals are optimistic he’ll make it back before the season ends.
11:21am: The Cardinals have placed third baseman Jedd Gyorko on the 10-day disabled list with a right hamstring strain and recalled first baseman Luke Voit from Triple-A Memphis. Gyorko suffered the injury during the Cardinals’ 6-4 win over the Rays on Saturday, and manager Mike Matheny told reporters after the game that it “didn’t look good” (via Jenifer Langosch of MLB.com). There’s concern Gyorko could be out for the foreseeable future, per Langosch.
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St. Louis climbed over .500 (65-64) with its latest victory and sits 4.5 games back in the National League Central and five out of an NL wild-card spot, so Gyorko’s absence could affect the playoff race. Gyorko’s in the middle of a second straight respectable season with the Cardinals, though his .272/.341/.469 batting line in 449 plate appearances masks a subpar second half. Since the All-Star break ended, Gyorko has hit just .213/.292/.362 in 127 trips to the plate. But the 28-year-old is still capable of helping the Redbirds in other facets when he’s not producing with the bat, evidenced by his fifth-ranked defensive runs saved total (16).
With Gyorko down and Voit back in the majors after a .253/.323/460 showing in 96 PAs earlier this year, the Cardinals could shift first baseman Matt Carpenter back to third, Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes (Twitter link). Carpenter has played the majority of his career at the hot corner, but he has only appeared there once this season.
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Thanks for nothing over over the past few years Ownership!!! Since 2012, you haven’t done anything to bring in a true difference maker to the Cardinals. When are you going to wake up and fire Mozeliak since he has absolutely no respect and no bargaining power with other General Managers or their President of Operations. He has run this team into the ground! He cost you money on salary contracts on mediocre players and can not or will not do anything to right the ship!! I know it’s easy to sit back in you chairs, smoke your Havana’s, and collect the millions roll in as 3 million dedicated fans roll through the gates each season!! You raised the price each year on everything and give the fans very little in return. We’re tired of watching little league defense and low hanging fruit players ( as Mozeliak calls them). Obviously there is no desire to better the Cardinals at trading deadlines, Free Agency, or seasonal trades. You know you man in charge of operations and players is horrible when you make players available at the trading deadline and other teams laugh at him and say thanks but no thanks-we’d be better off with what we have!!!
You must of forgotten about the World Series visit in 2013 and being a close in 2014. Yes they’ve not lived up to potential the last two seasons but they’ve been constant contenders for 15 years so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt thru the offseason