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Cardinals Place Carson Kelly On 10-Day DL, Select Steve Baron

By Jeff Todd | May 17, 2018 at 2:28pm CDT

2:28 pm: Veteran righty Adam Wainwright is moving to the 60-day DL to create roster space, the team announced.

1:55pm: The Cardinals have placed catcher Carson Kelly on the 10-day DL with a hamstring injury, Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on Twitter. He’ll be replaced on the active roster by fellow backstop Steve Baron, which will mandate a still-undetermined 40-man roster move.

Kelly, 23, has long been seen as the heir apparent to Yadier Molina, who is himself on the shelf at the moment. But Kelly has struggled offensively in his limited MLB action over the past there years. This season, he has mustered only two singles in 19 plate appearances.

Francisco Pena has appeared in a dozen games, making him the most-used catcher other than Molina, who’s expected to be out until at least early June. In the meantime, Baron will help hold down the fort. The 27-year-old, a former first-round pick, has appeared briefly in the majors once before. He signed a minors deal with the Cards and was off to an ugly .153/.167/.186 slash in sixty plate appearances at Triple-A.

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  1. rhendricks

    7 years ago

    You have a typo in there say Molina is expected out until at least early ‘April’.

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  2. Matt Woods

    7 years ago

    Sounds like Wainwright to the 60-day to make room on the 40-man for Bannon.

    The Cards probably have a black hole at catcher now with Pena/Baron.

    BTW, not to nitpick, but Molina isn’t expected to be out until at least early April. He should be back sometime in June I think.

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    • brucewayne

      7 years ago

      Pena is doing just fine !

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  3. Kennon Riley

    7 years ago

    Molina is out until early April, 2019? Or early August, 2018?

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  4. dbacksfan22

    7 years ago

    Swihart

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    • Bocephus

      7 years ago

      AAAA

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  5. rusty2489

    7 years ago

    holy crap. seems,like a ton of injuries only a quarter of the way into season. Hopefully the crew they are counting on can stay healthy and get their heads outta their Ass. Ozuna, Carp, Fowler,etc.

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    • daved

      7 years ago

      Ton of injuries? Other than Carlos, nobody who has gotten hurt is worth a damn.

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      • baseballpun

        7 years ago

        YADI

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        • daved

          7 years ago

          Yadi is extremely over rated.

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        • STLCards33

          7 years ago

          Are you stupid

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        • dmarcus15

          7 years ago

          yadi is overrated? he has been the best overall catcher in the bigs for over a decade! Watch some baseball once in awhile jesus.

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  6. beetlejuice

    7 years ago

    Realmuto, high price but do it Mo.

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    • c1234

      7 years ago

      No thanks yadi will be here soon. After he retires Kelly is are starter

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      • daved

        7 years ago

        Kelly won’t be on this team in 2019. He’s awful and the Cards have over rated him. He will be traded.

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        • johnrealtime

          7 years ago

          He’s only 23 years old. A little early to give on him

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        • We’re_Pham-ily

          7 years ago

          The Cardinals aren’t the people ranking their prospects, bud.

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  7. baseballpun

    7 years ago

    If they’re adding to the 40-man anyway, why not Knizer? Who cares that he’s in AA?

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    • CompanyAssassin

      7 years ago

      Thank you

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    • daved

      7 years ago

      Because the Meathead will just sit him and let him rot. Better for him to continue to get at bats in AA

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    • Codeeg

      7 years ago

      Probably so baron can be dropped once kelly is healthy.

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    • cards667

      7 years ago

      Knizner defense is suspect. Hes got a lot to learn there. Kelly have very good defense, but his bat hasn’t progressed the way they’d like. I think I’m still higher on Kelly, because I prefer a catcher who can catch.

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  8. 3Rivers

    7 years ago

    LOVE TO SEE CARDINALS SUFFERING

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    • c1234

      7 years ago

      Not really lol look at their record

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    • djhorvath

      7 years ago

      All the injuries, lack of performance from some players and still on the cuspof first place. I will take that suffering anytime…

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    • brucewayne

      7 years ago

      You are a major black

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      • brucewayne

        7 years ago

        and yellow douche bag for celebrating injuries !

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  9. javier 3

    7 years ago

    There is a typo. You said there instead of three

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    • johnrealtime

      7 years ago

      I really recommend that the writers on this site use grammarly. I don’t really care about the mistakes, but would be nice to not have multiple comments in most articles about it

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      • tim815

        7 years ago

        That’s on the readers.

        If you are confused by a spelling error on a free site, or feel compelled to point it out over and over again, perhaps you should limit yourselfd to reading the daily newspaper dropped off at your door every morning, with no replacement until 24 hours later.

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  10. tim815

    7 years ago

    Often, a reserve catcher provides his most value by staying healthy. Wainwright was likely out 60, anyway. However, if another roster move is necessitated by a catching injury soon, they might lose real talent over injuries.

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  11. CardsNation5

    7 years ago

    He’s on the dL because he’s not ready. The Cardinals should go after Swihart

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