April 7: The Cardinal will formally carry out these actions today. To open the necessary 40-person position, left-handed Zack Thompson Transferred to 60 days IL. He was closed in early March due to a torn muscle in his left hand. Now, he is not eligible to be restored until 60 days of open day, which will be late May.
April 6: Cardinal plans to place catcher Ivan Herrera Club manager Oli Marmol told ESPN’s Buster Olney on a baseball broadcast tonight on Sunday night that was on the list of injuries from inflammation in the left knee. Marmol added that the initial test results returned to Herrera’s knees and there was still structural sound despite the IL being placed. Just like Derrick Goold of St. Louis Post Post Yohel Pozo and Pedro Page Herrera is behind the plate when she is on the shelf. A 40-person list is required to accommodate Pozo.
As Goold noted earlier today, Herrera’s injury occurred in the first game of the double-headed game between the Red Sox and the Cardinal this afternoon, requiring Herrera to feel uncomfortable when she ran from the first to the third run in a single. MLB.com’s John Denton noted that Herrera seemed to have done better later in the day, and the reserves were suffering at club meetings during the layoffs between the two games against Boston today. Even so, it wasn’t surprising that Herrera was on the injured list, as the capture player’s knee grabbed the body’s injury. Since Herrera suffers from knee inflammation, this may mean that even if no imaging of structural damage is found, there may be considerable absence.
For the Cardinal, this is a huge loss. Herrera has been a great game this year, reaching .400/.455/1.100 in his first 22 sets of the year, with four home runs, three of which were in a game against the Angels earlier this week. Obviously, it’s a small sample size, but even Herrera sat in an impressive career slash at the Grand Slam event that entered the game today.296/.371/.444, WRC+’s 130 was useful in 102 games. It’s a big mark for any batsman, but if the catcher is maintained in a full 2025 campaign, it’s a stunning catcher position that will make Herrera one of the best offensive guards in the sport.
However, any hope must be put on hold for the moment, as Herrera is fined and injured in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, it appears that the page will step into the club’s regular catcher. This year, the page has already gotten a solid start, with just one strikeout in five games and hitting twice the 3-point range and double the unit of double defeats. However, the 26-year-old is not generally considered to offer the same offensive ceiling as Herrera, hitting just .238/.281/.376 in 68 games last year with the Cardinals. That being said, he is a solid defensive catcher who can provide a consistent offense behind the plate, and when Herrera is not there, it’s hard to get things down.
The club’s plan for backup receivers in the club is the club’s plan. veteran Willson Contreras Until the offseason, his entire league career went on throughout his career, when the Cardinals moved him to first base. Although generally considered an average defensive option, Contreras can often serve as a bat-first catcher throughout their career. It shocked me not only to call up Pozo as a backup of the page, but the club didn’t even use Contreras behind the plate in today’s double-headed match, but instead brought Pages into nearly two full matches. This shows that Contreras won’t even be used in an emergency, even with his lineup behind the plate Alec Burleson or Luken Baker Must be more offensive than a page or pozo.
Regardless, Contreras is locked on first base and appears to be taking Pozo’s backup responsibilities for the time being. The 27-year-old made his debut in the major league with the Rangers in 2021, but has never been in the Grand Slam since. He played 21 games in Texas that year, playing 77 sets along the way. In the years since, Pozo has been a deep choice for Rangers, track and field and now Cardinal at the third level, doing nothing but rakes. In 329 games in three seasons, Pozo cuts a strong .321/.343/545. While he can’t reasonably expect him to post anything close to in the profession, his strong work at the highest level does show that he might be able to deliver some pop music in the Bat, making him a solid partner behind the plate when Herrera was out.
