The Cardinals have optioned righty Alex Reyes and utilityman Yairo Munoz to Triple-A Memphis, according to Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Corresponding moves haven’t yet been announced.
Reyes will received “scheduled work” in Memphis, Goold notes, rather than his irregular deployment out of the Cards’ bullpen over the first week of the season. This usage could be a reason for Reyes’ struggles. as the 24-year-old has allowed five earned runs over his three innings pitched this season for an ugly 15.00 ERA. Reyes has allowed runs in each of his last three outings, including a rough frame of work on Friday that saw him surrender a Fernando Tatis Jr. homer as well as three walks, leading to three Padres runs.
One of the game’s most heralded pitching prospects, Reyes burst onto the scene with 46 innings of 1.57 ERA ball for the Cardinals in 2016, but has since barely pitched. Tommy John surgery sidelined him for all of 2017, and Reyes only amassed 27 total innings in the minors and majors in 2018 after tearing a tendon in his right lat.
A more steady workload could be the best move for Reyes as he continues to get his career back on track, and it seems likely that he’ll be back in St. Louis at some point this season after he begins to string together some good results. Whether that return would be as a reliever or as a starter may depend on the status of the Cardinals’ rotation members, though Reyes could again be seen as a potential multi-inning relief weapon for late in games.
Two pitchers are likely to be added to the 25-man roster, Goold writes. Since the Cardinals were playing with a five-man bench, Munoz became expendable as the team looked to add an extra arm to the bullpen. Munoz has five plate appearances over four games for St. Louis, making one start and mostly coming off the bench as a pinch-hitter and late-game defensive sub. The 24-year-old Munoz was a valuable bench piece for St. Louis last season, hitting .276/.350/.413 over 329 PA in his rookie season while seeing time at six different positions.
Reyes just needs to get back into baseball. He hasn’t pitched competitively in two years. He has to regain the feel for the game. His curve is flat and no pop on his fastball. That will come. This is the best move possible for him.
Can the Cards send Andrew Miller to get his act together too?
Guess he needs to get his control under control…..
This is a good thing. He may not see it that way now, but he’ll be better for it. Missing almost all of 2 years will throw things out of whack.
Weak-minded
What? How is he weak minded?
He’s talking about himself. Apparently he felt the need to say it publicly as a comment on this story. Weird? Yeah. But he apparently needs the attention.
I may be sitting down, but in my heart I am giving you a standing ovation for your reply.
For real. Nothing about Reyes is weak minded. Every interview about him since the weed thing has shown a humble, responsible adult.
Weak minded troll aka walterfranciswhite. A player who has over come so much professionally as well as personally may haven’t known but he also had a daughter fighting cancer. Whether you are a fan of the cardinals or not. Act like a respectable human being.
Maybe they will option Miller and Hicks too!! They have been awful…….and yes I know they can’t option Miller. It’s called sarcasm.
With the counting of pitches and batters working the count, starting pitchers even going into the 6th inning is becoming rare. I’ve never seen anything like the start of this season. MLB is now totally a bullpen game…..and those that are in the bullpen are there because they’re not good enough to be starters. So with 4-7 bullpen pitchers being used each game – usually pitching one inning at most – the weak link is going to be found and exploited. This is sad, as the result of competition at the highest level should be how the best batters vs. best pitchers/defenses fare. This is what happens when MBA’s and other bean counters take over a sport.
As for Miller – he never showed he was recovered from his injuries suffered with the Indians in 2018. Teams stood in line and bid on him anyway. He doesn’t look right at all. Another Cardinal free agent signing going the way of Fowler, Holland and others. Reading this site over the winter in which each free agent was glorified was an experience. Fact is that most will be radically overpaid for what they produce in their new contracts, yet the political cry that they are underpaid will continue.
MLB has always been about young players getting better.
As for the Cardinals……the pitching I thought was so good is simply not there. The defense is suspect other then 2B, CF, 1B, and maybe C. The hitters K’s are an epidemic. I’d like to say the Cardinals suck, but the truth is that almost all teams I’ve watched (over 20) look shades of awful. It’s not the cold weather because teams are playing in domed parks, and outside in the west and deep south. Expansion along with managers/coaches having to suck up to players instead of challenging them has resulted in most teams having less then 15 decent players on their 25 man playing roster.
Chill with ur facts bro there are not seven guys pitching out of the bullpen all the time, Miller has great experience that can help hicks become the great pitcher he can be, and the cards have good defensive players in all spots apart from RF.
Hey Metalhead, if it’s good sarcasm it doesn’t need to be explained. It’s also been 7 games. Not a whole season. Take for instance the Mets and their first two weeks last season. Not a great indicator!
It’s pretty sad, but here you do need to spell out sarcasm. Too many here looking to take things literally so they can either be offended or to prove you wrong.
I can see the concern with Miller though. He wasn’t exactly lights out last year, mostly due to injury. It’s possible something’s not quite right
Not sarcasm on my part……
Have been watching MLB for over 60 years. Catchers can’t handle their pitchers; defenders look like they never played with the guy next to them as they mess up plays; K’s continuing to increase; “superstars” continuing to hit balls into shifts when half the field is open to them; baserunning mistakes galore; DP’s that can’t be made in the shifts; etc.
There will be 6 division winners and some wild card winners as well. Like there will be 750 major leaguers every day of the season. Doesn’t mean they’re good.
Sorry, the level of competition is terrible; and games are being won by beating up on a bullpen guy that doesn’t have it that day….a guy whose name will be forgotten within 2 years….many sooner then that.
The sarcasm comment clearly wasn’t intended for you. Metalhead referenced sarcasm in his post and asdfgh mentioned sarcasm not being needed to be explained, a post which I directly replied to, not to yours, which, well, sorry, TLDR.
Clearly it’s not sarcasm it’s just communication skills many of you are lacking. Not taking any advice from someone who is 1) too long didn’t read (not a novel) 2) is a Mets fan giving advice on sarcasm. Maybe watch how you guys act as “respectable” fans on the 7 train.
I actually wasnt a fan of the piscotty trade intially because his bad season and contract. Also munoz looked to have potential to take over for marcua semien at shortstop. I actually still like munoz but piscotty and even laureano trades transformed the A’s last year.
Ever since the horrible Donaldson trade, the A’s have made up for it with some excellent trades. Davis, Manaea, Piscotty, Laureano, the Reddick/Hill trade, Treinen and hopefully Luzardo and Profar for the future.
I thought they drafted Manea 30’s.
And I thought they got him from Kansas City for Zobrist. But we’re probably both wrong.
Shoot. I believe you’re right. Like 35th pick. Totally forgot about KC. Makes the Rays return look bad. They got Robertson for him, not bad but alot less in my mind than Manea. However you spell it.
But wasn’t Robertson a top prospect at the time, and John Jaso had the potential to be a great catcher if he could have stayed healthy. They just got un lucky I guess.
Padres did some work on him. I’m actually surprised with the slow cardinals start
To the Cards: Giles and Stroman
To the Jays: Hudson, Reyes, Gyorko
Who says no first?
Cardinals
Everyone related to St. Louis, like anyone who’s ever even visited.
cards. Jays do it immediately and ask if they want sanchez too.
You probably spent a whole night thinking about such an awful idea
You probably spent a whole night waiting for your spot to “burn” me. Nice 🙂
Literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Lifelong cards fan and I wouldn’t make that trade even without including a valuable utility man like gyorko. How dumb would someone have to be to even propose that?
You can mock me all you like. Gyorko is a man without a position guaranteed $14 mil. Reyes, at 24, has been a letdown so far and Hudson, i think also 24, is caught between starter or power pen arm. Hmmmmmm. Stroman HAS thrown 200 IP and been to the postseason. Also under control for another year. Giles looks like he’s regained his form. So, sure, a trade like this probably won’t happen now but wait to see if these production trends continue for all parties suggested before saying it’s such a “dumb” idea. Cards are going for a WS and both the Jays guys would fill 2 needs towards that goal.
Bartender cut him off he’s had way too many to be speaking gibberish. Apparently you haven’t read into pitching depth and that we don’t need free agents for several years of control of great pitching talent. Lay off the fantasy GM concentrate on FACTS.
“Great pitching talent” would be MLB proven. Cards have great pitching potential…yet to be proven. Hence the demotion.
Stop being the “um actually” guy coldbeer. You don’t know what you are talking about. Giles has disciplinary issues and his talent is fading. Stroman’s talent has faded as well and most likely would not return to form.
It’s not a good proposal but that’s not true cobb. Giles has been just fine and why won’t Stroman return to form? You’re writing him off after one bad year where his advanced stats show he was better than what actually happened?
Tell me than how Giles and Stroman have showed to be great MLB talent as they would have to be great righty away. Not going to happen ever. Have you ever listened to Mozeliak? He doesn’t throw away so many years of talent for especially this pile of flaming garbage. Goldschmidt yes, this no! Hey reality is calling and says your fantasy trades are unrealistic. Sober up and don’t quit the day job.
So the GM doesn’t trade away years of control until he does. Which he has. Are you okay?
Who would the two pitchers be?
I’ll assume a lefty and a righty….maybe Gomber and Ponce? I’d love it to be Helsley and Webb personally.
I wonder if they’ll do Webb or Gomber. They might want to continue to give Gomber consistent innings in the minors too. Ponce has to be on his way up I’d think!
Goldy runs like that dude from ‘a bronx tale’
That made me chuckle. Gracias.
Perfect example of TINSTAAPP
Cardinals could trade him for Stanek. There would be another piece or two but that works well for both I believe. Then make all picks tradable and the Rays can send an infielders plus to the Giants for their top pick.
Reyes needs a map so he can find the strike zone
Half of the posters on this site are now googling the word ‘map’ LOL!
Hey good call! Let’s estrange the young people so that baseball will die when we do!