{"id":464752,"date":"2025-12-22T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464752\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:00:11","slug":"cardinals-jared-shuster-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464752\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals, Jared Shuster Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cardinals have agreed to a minor league contract with lefty Jared Shuster<\/a><\/strong>, reports<\/a> MLB Network\u2019s Jon Morosi. He\u2019ll invited to major league camp next spring.<\/p>\n

A first-round pick by Atlanta back in 2020, Shuster has pitched in parts of three big league seasons between the Braves and White Sox, combining to toss 141 2\/3 frames. He\u2019s been tagged for an ugly 5.27 ERA in that time. The 6\u20193\u2033 southpaw has done a nice job avoiding hard contact to this point in his career (87.7 mph average exit velocity, 34% hard-hit rate) but doesn\u2019t miss bats or limit walks at even average levels. He\u2019s fanned only 15.5% of his opponents and issued walks at a 10.1% clip in the bigs.<\/p>\n

Shuster, 27, sits 90-92 mph with his four-seamer as a starter and couples the pitch with a slider and changeup, both checking into the low 80s with their respective average velocities. He was averaging 92.6 mph on his fastball as a full-time reliever last year, but his results both in the majors and upper minors were rough.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals have plenty of opportunity on the pitching staff, be it in the bullpen or the rotation. For now, the rotation figures to include Matthew Liberatore<\/a><\/strong>, Michael McGreevy<\/a><\/strong>, Dustin May<\/a><\/strong> and Kyle Leahy<\/a><\/strong>. Andre Pallante<\/a><\/strong> will be a candidate to make starts but has also pitched in relief.<\/p>\n

Trade acquisitions Richard Fitts<\/a><\/strong> (Sonny Gray<\/a><\/strong>) and Hunter Dobbins<\/a><\/strong> (Willson Contreras<\/a><\/strong>) join prospects Quinn Mathews<\/a><\/strong>, Brycen Mautz<\/a><\/strong> and Tink Hence<\/a><\/strong> as possible 2026 rotation candidates. In the bullpen, veteran JoJo Romero<\/a><\/strong> and 30-year-old rookie Nick Raquet<\/a><\/strong> (who tossed his first two MLB frames in 2025) are the only options on the 40-man roster \u2014 and Romero is very likely to be traded prior to spring training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals have agreed to a minor league contract with lefty Jared Shuster, reports MLB Network\u2019s Jon Morosi.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":464753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[27052,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-464752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-jared-shuster","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115764293062089592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}