Cardinals shortstop Masyn Winn is scheduled for his arthroscopic knee surgery on Thursday, the club informed reporters (including John Denton of MLB.com and Derrick Goold of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Winn had played through a meniscus tear in the second half before being shut down a couple weeks ago. The relatively minor procedure is not expected to impact his availability for Spring Training.
Winn is wrapping up his second full major league season. His offense regressed this year, as he hit .253/.310/.363 across 537 plate appearances. Winn had a slightly above-average .267/.314/.415 slash with 15 homers and 32 doubles a season ago. The injury probably played a role in that. Winn ran a .198/.265/.281 line over his final 132 trips to the plate. The 23-year-old played through the pain while the Cardinals held out some hope for a long shot playoff berth. St. Louis eventually opted to shut him down and turn his attention to 2026.
To his credit, Winn didn’t allow the injury or his late-season offensive struggles to impact his performance in the field. He recorded 22 Outs Above Average, per Statcast. That’s second among shortstops behind Bobby Witt Jr. Defensive Runs Saved (+3) wasn’t quite that bullish, yet Winn lived up to his reputation as one of the game’s most sure handed infielders. He was only charged with three errors in more than 1100 innings at the infield’s most demanding position.
Thomas Saggese is finishing the season at shortstop. Winn will be the unquestioned starter next spring, assuming there aren’t any setbacks in his rehab process. While the Cards could entertain trade offers on a few veterans over the offseason, it’d be a shock if they seriously considered moving Winn. He’s still a year away from arbitration and under club control for four seasons.
So much for trying to play through it…
Hoping for a playoff run. All of Cardinal Nation was hoping for a playoff run. But you don’t get anywhere winning one losing one.
Win two, lose two, etc. That is why they have been hovering around .500 most of the season. Starting pitching put them in the hole many times. Always playing from behind it seemed. Better lately tho.
Isn’t that what any teams fanbase hopes for?…
Bill DeWitt Jr. always wanted to pay to field a team that was competitive enough to win the NL Central.
Now —- over the past 5-8 years — Bill DeWitt III
is in charge of player’s salaries. The parking garages are making more than some of the Cardinals players!!!!
No way….not enough peeps in the stands to actually make any money on the garages.
Ha!! Good one stollcm!!
And Very true about how much the parking Garages made.
Especially since Attendance is down over 1,000,000 fans this season from the previous yearly average of over 3,000,000 fans at Busch III covering the past several individual seasons…..
When the team was Competitive!!!
The sorry thing is —- The DeWitts, especially Bill DeWitt III, “Don’t get the message”!!!!!
Fans “will come back in droves” if the
DeWitts would show they cared and spend the money it’d take to bring in “a” young
Quality star player and “a” young Quality Ace pitcher to help Chiam Bloom turn this organization around.
(It’s not like they don’t have the money to spend!!!).
I’m more concerned about BWIII. He madee we the not-so-veiled threat that if the fans didn’t show, they wouldn’t “be able” to sign players.
He’s no better than young Angie was, when he got involved more closely with the team.
It doesn’t get talked about, so I’ll say it here. Jose Fermin has played really well whenever he’s been given an opportunity. I don’t see a path to playing time for him in St. Louis unless a lot of veterans are traded this offseason. Hopefully he will end up somewhere that can use him.
Very real possibility that Walker and Gorman aren’t Cardinals after this year, so Fermin could get more of a look.
I hope you are right Ol’ Uncle Charlie!!!
Gorman has repeatedly had his yearly chances and repeatedly keeps failing!!
Time for him to go and keep Fermin!!
Both Gorman and Walker continue to repeatedly be 33% strikeout artist! And!! Mediocre to average fielders.
It’s time to reward players like Fermin, etc. It’s time for him to get his roster spot!!
And it time for Gorman to get his change in scenery that could be very beneficial for all.
I had torn-meniscus arthroscopy 2o or so years ago, at age 60. With no rehab work to speak of, i was fully recovered in six months. So I do believe Winn will be ready for next season.
Yes, but how’s your range at shortstop?
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