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Cardinals Activate Tyler Lyons, Carson Kelly; Place Greg Holland On DL

By Kyle Downing | May 26, 2018 at 12:09pm CDT

The Cardinals have made several injury-related moves, activating lefty reliever Tyler Lyons and catcher Carson Kelly while simultaneously moving righty reliever Greg Holland to the 10-day DL. The club also optioned catcher Steven Baron to Triple-A Memphis in a related move.

There’s no word yet as to the nature of Holland’s injury, though he’s certainly dealing with some swelling in his ERA and walk rate. On the season, those figures stand at 9.45 and 10.15, respectively. While he’s been unfortunate in the BABIP department (.388), there’s no arguing that Holland’s pitching has been astonishingly poor; the Cardinals are surely disappointed in the early returns on his one-year, $14MM contract. On the bright side, perhaps an extended rehab stint in the minors will allow Holland to get back on track.

The swap of Holland for Lyons, then, can probably be considered somewhat of a boost to the Cards’ bullpen. Though Lyons’ surface results don’t look much better (6.17 ERA), his strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.40) looks much less disastrous than that of his right-handed counterpart. Lyons emerged as a dominant left-hander for St. Louis last season, striking out 11.33 batters per nine innings en route to a 2.83 ERA.

Kelly’s return is welcome news for a Cardinals ballclub that’s been missing both he and feature backstop Yadier Molina all week. Formerly a highly-regarded catching prospect, Kelly hasn’t yet lived up to his billing. He’s hit just .160/.222/.200 across 108 plate appearances in the major leagues. He’ll likely see plenty of playing time as long as Molina remains out, though, so perhaps this is his chance to turn his offensive reputation around.

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  1. stollcm

    7 years ago

    DL for Holland? Sure….

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    • kripes-brewers

      7 years ago

      Exactly what ran through my mind…

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      • 3rdStrikeLooking

        7 years ago

        He strained his ineptabone. Takes a long time to heal.

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        • waterdog

          7 years ago

          I read earlier it’s at least a six month wait for re-evaluation. 60 day DL likely.

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        • socraticgadfly

          7 years ago

          On the bright side, to riff on the post … the contract is only one year.

          On the not so bright side, it’s still 3.5 and a no-trade on Dex.

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    • brucewayne

      7 years ago

      He refused to go to the minors to try

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      • brucewayne

        7 years ago

        and get fixed , so they found another way to get him there! I hope it works.

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  2. eatonculo

    7 years ago

    Thank God. Holland needs to get right or stop wasting a spot on the roster.

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  3. Chris79stl

    7 years ago

    On the DL with hurt pride….. may take a while for that to heal….

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  4. Falsehope

    7 years ago

    “There’s no word yet as to the nature of Holland’s injury, though he’s certainly dealing with some swelling in his ERA and walk rate.”

    Pure gold.

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    • sidewinder11

      7 years ago

      Best thing I’ve read all year

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    • justin-turner overdrive

      7 years ago

      Was going to comment that was some primo a-grade smoke right there lol, hats off to Kyle for that one

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    • waterdog

      7 years ago

      Truth hurts. Holland sucks. He doesn’t like it, the fans don’t like it, but in the end he was signed as the last reaction to the fan expectations and in reality the team would have been better without him (which the front office knew all along I suspect).

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  5. Anakin Skywalker

    7 years ago

    I have failed you cardinals. I have failed you.- Greg Holland.

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  6. astrosfan

    7 years ago

    Holland and the Rangers shoulda came to terms over the offseason. They do call the Rehab Rangers for a reason

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  7. echozulu88

    7 years ago

    Hip hip hooray!

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  8. alxdhm32

    7 years ago

    This guy is about to become the 14million dollar mistake.

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    • waterdog

      7 years ago

      About to? What part of IS do you not understand?

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  9. socraticgadfly

    7 years ago

    Is there a pitchers’ equivalent of the Mendoza line? Maybe a sabermetric one?

    I invented the Kozma line as a sabermetric equiv of the Mendoza Line itself.

    socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2014/04/can-billy-hami…

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