The Yankees have returned Rule 5 pick Cade Winquest to the Cardinals, according to announcements from both clubs. That indicates he cleared waivers after being designated for assignment last week. Winquest does not take a spot on the Cards’ 40-man roster. He has been assigned to Triple-A Memphis.
Winquest, 26 this month, had a bit of an unusual Rule 5 experience. The Yankees don’t make a lot of selections in that draft but decided to take a shot on Winquest. He didn’t have a dominant spring. He tossed ten Grapefruit League innings, allowing eight earned runs via 13 hits, four walks and one hit batter while striking out eight.
The Yanks had some roster breathing room to begin the year. Due to some off-days, they started the season with a four-man rotation and optioned Luis Gil to the minors. That was enough room for Winquest to hold a spot for a bit but the Yankees didn’t put him into a game. A couple of weeks into the season, Gil was recalled to rejoin the rotation and Winquest was designated for assignment.
Per the parameters of the Rule 5 draft, another club could have acquired him but would have been subject to the standard restrictions, namely that Rule 5 guys can’t be optioned to the minors throughout the year. If a Rule 5 guy is passed through waivers, he has to be offered back to his original club, with that team not having to give him a roster spot.
Though not making his debut might have been awkward for him, Winquest at least got to hang around big leaguers for a few weeks, getting major league pay and service time. He’ll now report to Triple-A to continue his development with the Cards. He split last year between High-A and Double-A, tossing 106 innings with a 3.99 earned run average, 23.9% strikeout rate, 8.5% walk rate and 48% ground ball rate.
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Off into the Winquest. lst.
Will be in STL bullpen before the month is over
#17 Yankees prospect on MLB Pipeline but can’t crack the Cardinals Top 30 list. Unless Cardinals Top 30 hasn’t been updated…but the Yankee list was updated?
Do you have him confused for Cade Smith?
No. Before the DFA, Winquest was the 17th ranked Yankee prospect on MLB Pipeline. He dropped out today. Everyone moved up one spot and they added Tony Rossi as the #30 prospect.
The Yankees system is quite shallow, having traded off a ton of guys since last July. The Cardinals system is pretty deep, having been collecting prospects recently while they haven’t been very good.
Admittedly, I don’t check the rankings often.
That’s okay. It was a crazy coincidence that the two Cades were ranked one after the other.
plus Rice, Schlittler, Wells, Volpe & some guy I never heard of named Jasson Dominguez all graduated from it
Will Warren, too! The system has been quite productive of late, both providing players for the big league team and players to be traded to improve the big league team. I take issue with certain aspects of the Yankees player development strategy (mostly with how and to whom they allocate their IFA budget), but it’s been quite handy of late.
28 rings – Plus the guys traded to other teams — some on those teams top 30 prospects (Herring, Alcantara, Lewis, Jones, Ziehl) and some at the MLB level (Agustin Ramirez, Weissert, Whitlock, Narvaez, King, Durbin, Valdez). Surely missed others, but those are top of mind.
Oh, please. Stop with the number of past WS wins. How many in the past decade?
Might not be a starting spot for him in Memphis. I guess to the pen he goes?
Fitts just went on the IL so there should be a spot open for him.
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Will Warren took it to Yoan Moncada in the top of the second. Three heaters right down the middle of the plate. A 2-2 count on Moncada, Warren throws him the high heat. Called strike three, Moncada challenges the pitch, ABS confirms it as a strike.
That is the best out pitch in the era of the ABS. Moncada stands prone too without lowering his center of gravity too much. High strike is going to be there with the ABS and that is how you game it as a pitcher.
Warren had him 2-2, set him up with a low fastball, nailed him with the high heat.
Hitters are going to see a lot of high fastballs down two strikes.
Yes, good point. I had heard Girardi or somebody echoing the same theory. ABS will change the game in some ways most are not even thinking about. I find it interesting and am glad they have put it in place.
I don’t think its a good change at all.
Too much to think about as a hitter down two strikes. To have the subconscious mindset of challenging a pitch is a distraction.
For pitchers, its an advantage. They are the initiators of the play. They get the advantage of using the system’s inherent weakness, the high strike, as part of their sequence and as part of their game plan.
They also get the same advantage as the hitter, to challenge a pitch after the umpire has made his call.
You’ll also see hitters keeping their bats on their shoulders, taking more pitches. Umpires ring them up for not taking an aggressive approach. Hitters can now chase less. They will hone in on their strike zone to a greater degree and in time, they will hit everything in the zone, even the high strike.
The fixed strike zone eliminates a slight warble and the doubt that comes with it. In time, the advantage will be so resoundingly with the hitter, batting averages, home runs, balls in play and walks will all be higher. It will be so difficult to get a ball by a hitter that they will then propose to widen the plate.
Game times will approach three hours.
I dont see anything good about it other than vetting umps for accuracy after the game.
You put too much faith in future generations
They did the boy dirty teasing him like that. I wish they’d have put him in that game last week when they were up 8-2. Hope he gets another shot.