{"id":725821,"date":"2026-04-13T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/725821\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:25:13","slug":"yankees-return-rule-5-pick-cade-winquest-to-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/725821\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Return Rule 5 Pick Cade Winquest To Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees have returned Rule 5 pick <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=winque000cad&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cade Winquest<\/a><\/strong> 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\u2019 40-man roster. He has been assigned to Triple-A Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>Winquest, 26 this month, had a bit of an unusual Rule 5 experience. The Yankees don\u2019t make a lot of selections in that draft but decided to take a shot on Winquest. He didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=gillu01,gil---004lui&amp;search=Luis+Gil&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luis Gil<\/a><\/strong> to the minors. That was enough room for Winquest to hold a spot for a bit but the Yankees didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019ll 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.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees have returned Rule 5 pick Cade Winquest to the Cardinals, according to announcements from both clubs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":717198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[209219,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-725821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cade-winquest","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116399513884748682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725821","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=725821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}