TODAY: The Cardinals announced that Dickson has been released.
SEPTEMBER 8: The Cardinals announced that reliever Brandon Dickson has cleared waivers and been sent outright to Triple-A Memphis. St. Louis designated him for assignment earlier this week.
Dickson rather remarkably made it back to the majors as a September call-up last week. The 36-year-old logged his first big league action since 2012 on Wednesday after spending the 2013-20 seasons in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. Dickson’s two big league outings didn’t go as he’d intended, however, as he served up three runs on five hits in two innings.
The right-hander will now return to Memphis, where he made eleven appearances earlier in the year. Dickson only posted a 9.58 ERA over 10 1/3 innings there, coughing up four home runs in that limited time. While his return to affiliated ball hasn’t yet yielded quality results, Dickson earned his way back with a strong body of work in Japan, as well as 3 1/3 innings of one-run ball for the U.S. National Team at this year’s Summer Olympics.
I was very perplexed that they only had two choices to expand from 26 to 28 on their roster, and one of those callups was Branden Dickson
only because Andrew Miller was on IL
Brandon Dickson, pitcher, seems to have switched places between Japan and MLB with Brandon Dixon, IF/OF. Dixon is with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles this season after spending the previous few years in Detroit.
Welp.. goes to show when pitchers go across seas and become reliable starters, it doesn’t always pan out when they come back. Mike Wright put in a serviceable season with the KBO last year and the best he’s done this year is peg Ohtani.