The Cardinals have designated right-hander Zak Kent for assignment, the team announced. The move opens up a spot on the 40-man roster for Ramon Urias, who agreed to a one-year deal. St. Louis claimed Kent off waivers from the Rangers earlier this week.
It’s been a whirlwind offseason for Kent, with the Cardinals at the center of it. The club picked him up off waivers from the Guardians back in December. After about a month in the organization, he lost his spot when St. Louis landed left-hander Justin Bruihl. The Rangers claimed Kent, but bumped him off the roster when they signed left-hander Jordan Montgomery. Kent’s most recent stint with the Cardinals lasted just five days.
The 27-year-old had an unremarkable debut with Cleveland this past season. He pitched to a 4.58 ERA in 17 2/3 innings. Kent showed a three-pitch arsenal in his 12 appearances, throwing each of his four-seamer, slider, and curveball at least 25% of the time. The righty used the slider on nearly 40% of his offerings. It held opponents to a .138 batting average. The slider was also his best whiff pitch.
It’s likely the Triple-A numbers that have teams intrigued by Kent. He has a career 3.74 ERA in 122 2/3 innings at the level. Kent posted back-to-back seasons with a K/9 above 11 at Columbus. He had a sub-3.00 ERA with a 31.4% strikeout rate in 34 appearances with the Clippers in 2025.
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Poor Zak doesn’t know if he is coming or going.
It would be really funny if the Guardians claimed him, just to close the circle on his rather lengthy transaction log this winter.
Better audition for Zack Attack
If he signs with the Tigers, he can hang out with Slater.
Clark will be very disappointed
Further proof that Chaim has no idea what he’s doing and that this new regime will never win a championship like the old one. This team already misses Mo and I hope he’s somewhere laughing
The Cardinals definitely don’t miss Mo!
BUT —- I’m beginning to think you’re right!!
Watching Chaim Bloom —- I’ve never seen a MLB Front Office intentionally trade off all of their star players —- for non-star and not even a non-semi star player!! Plus pay their former star players to play for the team he trades them too!?!?!
He makes it a point not to acquire any name players who might draw fans into the stadium!!
This is the Craziest thing I’ve ever witnessed!!!!
Stars? Arenado hasn’t been good for 2 years. Contreras wasn’t going to be good in the next contention window. Donovan will be missed, but they absolutely got a haul for him. Gray was a number 3 on a championship team at this point. By paying salary, they got some players that can help now, or in the future as players on the team, or trade bait. I’m pretty sure Chaim knows EXACTLY what he’s doing.
1998 Marlins
Zero leadership left and a pansy manager. These kids will never figure it out on their own
“Name players” cost big bucks and it isn’t Blooms $. How is this not clear?
Here’s a penny. Go buy yourself a nice ride, on me, and I’ll bash your results.
Because he signed Urias over Kent? Just look at how much the farm has improved in the last 4 months, im excited to see what else Bloom does!
Sarcasm? Because anyone who knows anything about baseball knows these things happen all the time to every team.
Miss Mo? Ha! I miss Walt Jocketty
RIP
There were other moves that could have been made. Would have rather seen hjerpe or roby to the 60dl or roycroft dfa’d
Putting either of them on IL starts their service clock.
Doesn’t explain why they refuse to DFA Roycroft
Roycroft must have Ray Donovon employed or the DeWitt flight logs or something…
Zak come back to CLE