2:55pm: Hudson has been placed on the 10-day injured list, per the Cardinals. Righty Nabil Crismatt is up from the alternate site to take his spot on the active roster.
1:20pm: President of baseball operations John Mozeliak now tells reporters that Hudson’s injury is believed to be a flexor tendon issue, and he’s unlikely to pitch again in 2020 (Twitter link via Mark Saxon of The Athletic). The team is still awaiting an official diagnosis following the MRI.
Sept. 18, 8:00am: Cardinals manager Mike Shildt described his overall level of concern regarding Hudson’s injury as “fairly low,” per Richard Justice of MLB.com. Shildt termed the issue as a “minor” forearm strain. The club will know more after imaging, but both Shildt and Hudson himself were optimistic about his outlook postgame. Hudson added that he “felt good all the way up to that second inning” before experiencing some tightness and speaking up about the issue.
Sept. 17: Cardinals right-hander Dakota Hudson left the team’s game against the Pirates early on Thursday with elbow tightness. He’ll undergo an MRI on Friday, Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Hudson departed after throwing just two innings in another defeat for the Cardinals, who are 22-24 and fighting for a wild-card spot. Hudson has been an asset for the team, evidenced by his 2.77 ERA over 39 innings. It’s the third straight year in which he has defied fielding-independent numbers to post much better run prevention figures, evidenced by the 3.20 ERA and 4.72 FIP he has recorded over 239 innings since debuting in 2018. Hudson’s strikeout and walk rates (7.0 K/9 against 4.41 BB/9) haven’t been good, but he has offset those to some degree with a 57.4 groundball percentage.
At the very least, the Cardinals appear to have a legitimate MLB starter in Hudson, so the hope is that his elbow issue won’t stop him from pitching the rest of this year or cause him to miss time in 2021. The Cardinals may need all the rotation help they can get then with Hudson, Jack Flaherty and Kwang Hyun Kim seemingly the only members of their staff who appear to be locks for next year’s rotation. They could also get Miles Mikolas back from surgery on a right flexor tendon, though, while it remains to be seen whether Adam Wainwright will continue his career in 2021.
Adam Wainwright would like to have a word with you.
Not under contract for next year … yet.
I thought mikolas had tommy john
Nope, flexor tendon surgery. I doubt he’ll be back though.
Why wouldn’t he? He’ll be healthy and still under contract next year.
flexor tendon aka “not tommy john yet”
Why are you already counting out Carlos Martinez for next season’s rotation? Yes, he’s struggled so far this season, but that’s a very small sample size under extenuating circumstances.
Meanwhile, even if Wainwright doesn’t come back next year (which is unlikely the way he’s pitching), that just leaves a spot open for either Reyes, Gomber, or Woodford to finally join the rotation full-time.
maybe because C-Mart hasn’t made more than 20 starts in a season since 2017?
Woodford isn’t exactly killing it at the MLB level right now and Reyes can’t stay healthy. Gomber might pan out to a decent 4/5 starter though.
because Lanidrac is like Pollyana, they always want to be hopeful despite the fact that C-Mart is inconsistent in a starting role or relief, short season or long. Reyes can’t get out of his own way. Moe, needs to just get out of the way, so someone can bring in a pitcher to the rotation and pen.
Reyes has been plenty healthy this year and has looked really good thus far. It would be very surprising if he’s not in the rotation next year
Hudsons FIP of 4.74 is troublesome
Yes. But then, his ERA has outperformed his FIP for the third season in a row. That should mean something to you as well.
Theres always direct numbers lookers. Jamie Moyer had a very good career with average fips and whips. And they were consistantly average to below average. Some people just outperform those measurements consistantly. I look at marco as another former cardinal pitching very well with non great fips and whips.
That sucks. Do they have anyone to fill in for him? They desperately need Flaherty to turn his season around if they are going to make the playoffs.
Turn his season around? Dude had like one bad game. Depth is there.
I think its an honest question. With Hudson and Mikolas out thats two spots to fill. Do they know if Kim is going to miss any time? If he misses any time thats three spots. Even if the depth is there once you are going that far back on the depth chart that difficult to fill.
Tough break, good call on Stl’s behalf
Stl’s identity is going to have to be Him-Jack-, Kim-Waino- Carlos- MM for 2021- Theres not much ammo after that but luckily the Div is winnable with solid contributions from 4 outta the 6 SPs above next year
2022 the books open up nice, I think you will see some fresh new big names then
I still feel Colby Rasmus ghost haunts this Of today in some form, I just cant pinpoint it
Thompson and liberatore down on the farm are 2 years away max. Theyve got good arms, its non 3rd base offense that is absent from this system. A young third baseman or catcher will have to be traded in the off season to bring back an outfielder in my opinion.