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Cardinals Place Adam Wainwright On COVID List

By Anthony Franco | May 6, 2022 at 4:32pm CDT

The Cardinals announced this afternoon that starter Adam Wainwright has been placed on the COVID-19 injured list. Steven Matz, who had been on bereavement leave, has been reinstated to take his spot on the active roster.

Wainwright has tested positive for the virus, reports John Denton of MLB.com (Twitter link). The veteran righty took to Twitter to announce that he feels “100% with zero symptoms.” Nevertheless, because he tested positive, he’ll have to go through the standard isolation procedure before he’s cleared to return to the team. Wainwright becomes the second Cardinal in recent days to land on the virus-related IL, joining infielder Edmundo Sosa.

Under the league’s 2022 health-and-safety protocols, players who test positive are subject to a 10-day absence from the club. It’s possible to be reinstated in less time if the player has gone 24 or more hours without a fever, received a pair of negative PCR tests, and been given approval from a team physician and the MLB/MLBPA joint committee (a panel of one league-appointed and one union-appointed physician).

Even in his age-40 season, Wainwright is still a highly valuable contributor for the Cards. He owns a 3.18 ERA over 34 innings, compensating for an early dip in swinging strikes by inducing plenty of ground-balls. St. Louis has an off day on Monday, the day before what would’ve been Wainwright’s next scheduled start. It’s possible they keep their other starters on regular rest and only need to fill in once for Wainwright late next week.

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39 Comments

  1. Kewldood69

    3 years ago

    Wainwright seems like a guy who won’t get vaccinated but will eat Chil – Fil – A or other garbage worse for you.

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    • Dotnet22

      3 years ago

      Dumb comparison.

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    • mrperkins

      3 years ago

      Well Wainwright was fully vaccinated last year so I would be surprised if he didn’t get booster. I am fully vaccinated but I still caught it after my co-worker finally got tested after coughing all over at work for a week.

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    • Ya'll a bunch of salty crybabies

      3 years ago

      Chic-Fil-A is better for you than Koolaid, Sky Screamer.

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      • richt

        3 years ago

        A vaccine doesn’t inject you with Koolaid, idiot.

        Still, that’s better than the bleach you probably injected yourself with after the wannabe dictator you bow down to told you to.

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        • pirateking24

          3 years ago

          When did Trump say to inject bleach?

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        • richt

          3 years ago

          bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177

          Maybe you lived under a rock back then.

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        • Fred McGriff

          3 years ago

          @richt

          You shouldn’t be discussing your diseases on this site, and you shouldn’t be quoting the propagandist BBC either. Keep your lies to yourself.

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        • cmjustice85

          3 years ago

          I can see your an idiot. that’s not what he said at all but I know it’s a leftist thing to try and make him look bad. second you called him a dictator when he did nothing like that at all but Biden did. lastly the vaccine does not stop you from getting the virus so yeah what’s the point?

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    • Andujar

      3 years ago

      All reports indicate that Wainwright and his family are fully vaccinated and that he was an activist toward getting teammates vaccinated. I’m curious how you came to this assumption about him.

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      • saluelthpops

        3 years ago

        He won’t have an explanation. That would take critical thinking and common sense.

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    • Kevin28786

      3 years ago

      What, are you trying to win a how to tell someone you’re a lib without telling them you’re a lib contest? LMFAO

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      • richt

        3 years ago

        Look at this sad incel who thinks you’re only tough if you don’t get a vaccine and don’t wear a mask! Loser, go worship a Robert E Lee statue!

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        • Mrsuntan

          3 years ago

          Listen woke boy what did Robert E Lee ever do to you, sleep with your sister? Well I guess most southerners have. Well at least you stopped liking your own post

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        • richt

          3 years ago

          True, a lot of southerners do sleep with their sisters. That’s how your parents conceived you.

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  2. DonOsbourne

    3 years ago

    Maybe Liberatore gets a cup of coffee?

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    • Daryl Pauley

      3 years ago

      good thought.

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    • Daryl Pauley

      3 years ago

      good thought

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    • Daryl Pauley

      3 years ago

      good thought but probably not.

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    • gbs42

      3 years ago

      Not a bad thought.

      Reply
  3. mrperkins

    3 years ago

    The dutch sounding guy threw a rehab game a few nights ago. Maybe he gets the spot to show he can compete or go the way of Brooks.

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    • DonOsbourne

      3 years ago

      VerHagen. I’d say that’s the most likely route. I’m ok with that. They need to find out if he can be a regular starter. The Hicks experiment will likely end this month. No one seems to know what is going on with Flaherty. So predictably, we need another starter and VerHagen is likely to get the first shot.

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  4. swinging wood

    3 years ago

    Mask Up, Birdos.

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    • Ya'll a bunch of salty crybabies

      3 years ago

      CornPop says so!

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      • Poster formerly known as . . .

        3 years ago

        Corn Pop passed away in 2016.

        heavy.com/news/2019/09/joe-biden-corn-pop-william-…

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      • richt

        3 years ago

        Arthur Morgan needs a mask more than anyone, one that keeps his mouth shut so he stops embarrassing himself publicly.

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        • Ya'll a bunch of salty crybabies

          3 years ago

          Masks don’t work for “Covid” and they won’t keep me quiet. You’re one of those freaks that wears one while outside by yourself, aren’t you, Sunshine? Weak!

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        • richt

          3 years ago

          You’re one of those freaks who doesn’t live in reality aren’t you Stop being a snowflake and put one on. You’re more scared of masks than you are of black people.

          Reply
        • Poster formerly known as . . .

          3 years ago

          In mid-April of 2020 over 1,000 New Yorkers died of Covid in a single day.

          In mid-August of 2020, the number who died in a single day could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

          New York ordered and enforced lockdowns, social distancing, and the wearing of masks.

          There were no vaccines. Pfizer’s vaccine wasn’t even given emergency use approval until the following December.

          If masks don’t work, why do surgeons and nurses wear them in the operating room? If masks don’t work, how did New York so dramatically flatten the curve in four months?

          The people at the CDC are highly educated, experienced medical professionals. This is what they say:

          ‘Wear a Mask When There is A Lot of COVID in Your Community

          ‘Wear a mask in public places where there are a lot of people around.

          ‘Wear a Mask to Protect Yourself and Others

          ‘Masking is a critical public health tool and it is important to remember that any mask is better than no mask.

          ‘Wear the most protective mask you can that fits well and that you will wear consistently.

          ‘Wearing a well-fitted mask along with vaccination, self-testing, and physical distancing, helps protect you and others by reducing the chance of spreading COVID-19’

          Do you have a medical degree? A degree in epidemiology? A degree in virology? Judging from your comment, I’m guessing you don’t.

          Instead of listening to opinionated talking heads on Fox News and elsewhere who likewise have no background in medicine or the relevant sciences, I encourage you to listen to the experts who actually know what they’re talking about. You’ll make wiser choices, Arthur.

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  5. Brew88

    3 years ago

    @mlbtr. Ok what’s up, first the Bauer stories are open for “comments” and now this? Amusing as the idiocracy is, I come here for baseball.

    3
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  6. Poster formerly known as . . .

    3 years ago

    Hmmm. Telling the truth isn’t allowed, apparently. My citation of a series of facts seems to have drawn the ire of the moderator, who deleted my post.

    1
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    • richt

      3 years ago

      It’s because you had a link in it, most likely. I saw it.

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      • Poster formerly known as . . .

        3 years ago

        I’ve posted links before, as have other posters. Now it’s a problem?

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        • Fred McGriff

          3 years ago

          @Fink Ployd

          Keep your political opinions and left wing propaganda to yourself. Most people are here to discuss baseball, that’s why the site is titled MLBTR.

          The fact that you assert that propaganda is “truth” makes me laugh.

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    • Brew88

      3 years ago

      I saw it too. Good fact-based post with reasonable links. Apparently links are fine when related to sports, but not Covid. Which begs the question, why would mlbtr open up comments to politically charged subject then moderate a factual response?

      2
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      • Poster formerly known as . . .

        3 years ago

        Maybe my suggestion that we acknowledge facts instead of politicizing everything irked somebody.

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        • Brew88

          3 years ago

          Apparently outrageousness and sensationalism sells on mlbtr too

          2
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  7. 66TheNumberOfTheBest

    3 years ago

    One million Americans dead from Covid.

    More than died in all of the wars in US history combined.

    JuSt LiKe tHe fLu.

    Wait until the “having to wear a mask in a grocery store for 5 minutes is TYRANNY” folks find out about forced birth.

    They’ll be so outraged, right?

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    • richt

      3 years ago

      Nah man, when it’s a woman being forced to birth a child whose conception she had no say in, that’s where bodily autonomy ends. It’s only for men, duh.

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