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Brian, I think a list of relievers with an era under 5 for Memphis shows how few are near ready to help the big club. Perhaps that was your point. Fernandez has had middling results after a good 2025 campaign.
I think Winquest would be serviceable if called up today. He is striking out a good amount and not walking guys which gives him a 4.14 FIP. He has given up some long balls which hurt him. I don’t think he would come up and be amazing right away, but he would be better than Svanson is right now.
Winquest’s ERA by month.
April 12.00
May 1.59
June 6.30
July 5.63Can I have the May version, please? 😉
I am expecting to see a bullpen of O’Brien, Graceffo, Gastellum, Mautz, Fernandez, Hjerpe, Soriano, and Winquest in a week. I could see Dobbins in one of those spots if Matthews becomes the fifth starter or O’Brien is traded.
Maybe not Hjerpe if they aren’t able to trade Bruihl.
I wonder how busy we’ll be at the deadline. We all know who we may trade, players like Nootbaar, May, and/or Romero. But what are our needs in return? If we could net a starting pitching prospect that would be nice. As has been noted, our bullpen needs shoring up particularly from the side side if we trade Romero. Another possibility is a right handed bat who could play center. Any players acquired should be young controllable players.
It would be nice to acquire a young OF and a young 3B but I am not expecting everything to happen in the next week. Some of it may have to happen in the offseason, which may consist of one week in March due to the upcoming CBA strife.
Hjerpe has 26 innings above A level. 113 pro innings altogether. I have no confidence the Cardinals will do what makes sense when it comes to pitcher development, so who knows.
Personally, I don’t expect more than 2 or 3 trades this week, unless you count the Cards DFA’ing a player and trading them for cash. I expect them to sell Romero and maybe May, but not much else, unless teams get crazy desperate on the last day. Noot would be the one that would cause a team to overpay at the deadline and blow my theory. I guess Stanek could be had as well for a low level prospect or two.
Well, by name anyway you would much rather see a pitcher come in to a game named Winquest than Blewett. 😄
The Cardinals — who have the top catching prospect in MLB (Rainiel Rodriguez) at Double-A and another of their Top 5 prospects (Leo Bernal) at Triple-A — could also be open to moving one of their catchers, likely either Pedro Pagés or Iván Herrera, per sources.
— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) July 28, 2026
They have so many, why not share the wealth? 🙂
Can’t imagine Pages would get much of a return. I would not trade Herrera (he isn’t much of a catcher anyway, especially if a buying team would prefer not to have runners stealing on them like it’s Christmas).
I think Chaim will be open for business. I think there are those that will be dealt that are on expiring contracts. Bellingers injury may lead the Yankees to pursue Nootbaars. I thought they had some interest in him last offseason. I think others like Fermin, Prieto, and Pages might draw interest. Maybe they could get some relief help for some of those 3.
There are two players that will absolutely be traded no matter what (May & Romero), as long as they can find someone to trade for May and his 4.59 ERA.
I imagine the Cardinals are shopping Pages, who will undoubtedly be a fallback option for teams who fail to land a catcher with a bat.
Herrera could be traded for a major prospect haul because the number of catchers with a good bat that are going to be available seems to be dwindling as the Twins are now 1/2 game back of the wild card. Here’s the danger of trading Herrera: We saw all summer long how well McGreevy pitched with Herrera behind the plate, we have seen how bad he has pitched the last two games with Crooks behind the plate. Catching isn’t just about catching base stealers. A large part of it is calling the game.
Nootbaar – yes the Yankees may be interested with Bellinger out and Houston is shopping for a left-handed outfielder. If you trade Nootbaar, you have to be willing to pony up for a free agent outfielder in the offseason, and there are only two who are upgrades over Nootbaar – Arazorena and Taylor Ward. Arazorena will probably cost $20+ million per year to sign, and Ward will likely be in the $15-20 million range.
I don’t think the DeWitts will pony up for FA replacements for either Herrera or Nootbaar. That means if they are traded, the rebuild timeframe will be extended, and all we will have to cheer for is how much money the DeWitts are saving.
We no doubt need to trade a catcher. The logjam in the organization has existed for awhile. I would prefer to keep Pages as a backup because we know he can actually catch but it wouldn’t be the end of the world if we traded him.
May and Romero are definitely leaving while Noot, O’Brien, Stanek, and Herrera probably shouldn’t be looking at new houses in STL.
Herrera fits for boston, they need a right handed power hitter, i guess u can call herrera that if u will. Now do they have something we need.
I didn’t realize that Stanek is tradeable due to cheap salary. The balance of 2.5 mill is all,it would take for a team to get him.
Former MLB GM @JimBowdenGM explained on #BKandFerrario why he believes the #STLCards would be making a mistake to sell at this year's deadline. pic.twitter.com/ALulWn6alt
— 101 ESPN St. Louis (@101espn) July 29, 2026
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