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Cardinals Sign Andrew Suarez To Minor League Deal
By Steve Adams | January 27, 2023 at 5:23pm CDTThe Cardinals announced Friday that they’ve signed lefty Andrew Suarez to a minor league contract and invited him to Spring Training. He’ll provide some left-handed depth and a potential bullpen option after spending the past two seasons pitching in the Korea Baseball Organization (2021) and Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (2022).
A second-round pick by the Giants back in 2015, Suarez pitched parts of three big league seasons in San Francisco, impressing with a solid 4.49 ERA in 160 1/3 frames as a rookie in 2018 before regressing to a 5.79 ERA in 32 2/3 innings during his sophomore season. Suarez tossed just 9 2/3 innings during the shortened 2020 campaign, bringing his career ERA to 4.66 in 202 2/3 innings. He’s fanned a below-average 17.8% of his MLB opponents but also posted strong 7.8% walk and 49.8% ground-ball rates as a big leaguer.
Suarez, 30, was excellent with the KBO’s LG Twins back in 2021, pitching 115 1/3 innings of 2.18 ERA ball with a 26.6% strikeout rate, 8.7% walk rate and 57.1% grounder rate. That landed him a deal with NPB’s Yakult Swallows for the 2022 season, which he surely hoped to use as a stepping stone for either a raise on a second season in NPB or a return directly to the big leagues.
The results will be revealed tonight at 6 on MLB Network. I think Rolen & Helton get in, Wagner may fall a little bit short.
2022 was not a disappointing season. The Cardinals won their division by 7 games and had the 6th best record in MLB. The Phillies beat us in the playoffs and went on to represent the NL in the WS. The Phillies had 6 fewer wins than the Cardinals did in the regular season. In the playoffs, it is all about who gets hot and the Phillies were that team.
Sorry that it didn’t paste the first time. I hope you can read it. I was interested because she is a Carolina grad. and was a scout for the Cardinals last year. I met her this Fall at Scrimmages and talked to her. She was knowledgeable and nice.
forsch31…I have seen him a couple of times. His stats are not impressive but his trade value is reasonably high.
