The Cardinals have placed righty Dominic Leone on release waivers, per a team announcement. MLBTR had projected him to earn $1.6MM via arbitration had he been tendered a contract.
Leone came to St. Louis in the deal that sent Randal Grichuk to Toronto. At the time, Leone was coming off of a strong 2017 season and seemed likely to play a significant role in the Cards’ pen. The tenure did not go as hoped. Leone has contributed only 64 2/3 innings of 5.15 ERA ball at the MLB level over the past two seasons.
Despite the struggles, there’ll be interest in the 28-year-old Leone. He has produced a strong 14.3% swinging-strike rate in St. Louis and averaged 10.0 strikeouts per nine innings. Leone was also able to produce good results last year in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League, working to a 2.84 ERA with 11.9 K/9 against 4.0 BB/9 in 31 2/3 innings.
Okay.
That’s gonna be a huge mistake for St. Louis.
Why? They have a lot of young arms coming up that need spots and he was bad enough that they could only use him in mop up, low leverage situations.
They could also always resign him to a minor league deal, that’s all he’s going to find after last year.
I believe he was joking.
why? hes trash
wow. deep insight.
That’s some good comedy standupguy!
Leone seems like a nice guy and I hope he finds himself again. I see Toronto in his future
Classic reply from a shildt defender. He’s an awful manager and has no hope for every moving up to manage a Shoneys.
That’s manager of the year Mike Shildt to you. He’s done more with less than that joke of a manager Matheny could’ve ever done
A joke award that owners basically buy each season. He had 6 of his 8 opening day players who have been All-Stars before and a guy pitch most of the season like Greg Maddux…but yeah he did it all…SURE…
Oh yeah…3 of his 5 starting pitchers have had top 5 Cy Young finishes…but Shildt is just so good and does it all.
Dude, saying they were good because 6 of the 8 players were all stars in the past is like saying that the Orioles are good because Chris Davis was an all star awhile ago. All of their best players were young unproven guys that Schildt got the most out of (outside of Goldschmidt.) Most of the previous all stars had abnormally poor years, whether it be from inconsistency or decline.
They could have never had down years due to bad management or coaching tho huh? Again…he has a good roster, many players underperformed under him, the Central wasn’t as good this year, and he manages a Cracker Barrel.
The manager of the year award is the one award you can’t “buy.” That’s why guys like Boone and Davey Martinez aren’t even considered (even though Martinez’s Nationals finished 9 games back in their division and still won it all). The teams that spend enough money to “buy” championships are expected to win because of their payroll. It’s the managers that coach cheaper players to an elite level that win the MOTY award. Honestly though. If Folynewicz had not completely imploded game 5 an the Braves went on to face the Nats, Schildt wouldn’t have won it. It would have gone to Snitker or the 2nd year in a row. But Folty did implode and the Cardinals advanced so Schildt deserved it. It wasn’t going to be the Nats or Dodgers managers with their payrolls. It wasn’t going to be the #2 wildcard 1 game playoff exit Brewers either. It was really between Schildt and Snit and Schildt took his team farther directly against Snit so it had to go to him.
Your response here proves how little you know the game and your inexperience with Shildts cracker barrel. Awards like manager of the year and others are voted on and decided BEFORE the playoffs start. Bye Felicia. Oh yeah…and the Cardinals are not the little sisters of the poor…they have the second most World Series wins.
Counsell won Manager of the Year. He received the most FIRST PLACE votes.
CFAP – nice try. He couldn’t even win the division.
Angels all day
Jays won that trade…
Jury still out on that …Grichuk hasn’t been THAT good
I’d say the fact that the jays have to pay 52 mil to at best a 4th OF would suggest to me the cardinals won the trade by having a open roster spot.
i don’t think you can include the extension in the trade, two separate events.
jays won the trade.
Congratulations.
Well I think you can.
Cards won the trade.
Cards won the trade? The Cards outfield has been garbage for 2 years. Harrison Bourjos and Dexter Fowler have sucked offensively. Not saying Grichuk is great, but the guy had 31 HR, 29 doubles and 5 triples this past season. Leone just got released. How can anyone say the Cards won this trade? The fact that Toronto decided to pay him has nothing to do with the trade.
“Harrison Bourjos”
lmao thats funny
Maybe you can’t include the extension maybe we should just include controllable years. So they are both gone? Who cares?
The fact that Toronto decided to pay him does affect the valuation of the trade. It gives him a chance to make your interpretation correct .
Cards have finished 34 games over .500 and won a Division since the deal. Jays …haven’t.
It actually looks like the Cards have won …so far.
Cool, so Grichuk and only Grichuk is the reason the Cards won a division title and Toronto hasn’t. That might be the dumbest thing ever printed.
52M to Grichuk or 82M to Fowler? Ummmm…yeah. who won what?
Didn’t last long.
You jumping to that conclusion takes the title!
Fowler won that one. 82 > 52.
i am sure something you said was dumbest thing ever “printed”.
Yep. Fowler won, Cards lost.
Chip, it’s good to see you back and responding to me again. I guess you’ve been busy working those ovens at Dominos?
I believe Shildt works at Cracker Barrel with a career goal of moving up to Shoneys one day…which is unlikely.
163 strike outs and 136 hits and a .232 batting average. No thanks.
He wouldn’t start for the Cardinals.
I’d take Leone if I had to pay the two salaries. What was Toronto thinking with that contract?
Yes in the trade of expendable players. The Blue Jays won.
More like Dominic LeGONE
I liked him – someone will be happy they picked him up
Sounds like a perfect buy low candidate for Chaim Bloom in Boston. If he clears waivers, I believe his arbitration eligibility resets so they could sign him for under $1M if there are no better offers out there for him.
He won’t be allowed in Boston…they have ties historically to Rickey Henderson and one time Rickey ate at a nasty Boston eatery before flying to a game in St Louis. When he arrived in STL the food came back to literally bite him…he was in left field and he seriously farted and it echoed 20 miles. Pick up the August, 1997 Beckett magazine and you’ll read all about it. No way he’s going to Boston.
you took the words right out of my mouth
Oh no… was hoping to see that they’d also released Mike Shildt in this article too…or at minimum allowed the Cracker Barrel to take him full-time.
Both players in that trade are terrible
You mean Grichuk?
Yes he’s a 4th OF. Atkins paid him good money too lol.