{"id":307314,"date":"2025-11-25T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307314\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:18:10","slug":"cardinals-sign-scott-blewett-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307314\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Sign Scott Blewett To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cardinals announced they\u2019ve signed reliever\u00a0Scott Blewett<\/a> to a minor league contract. St. Louis also announced a minor league deal with\u00a0Sem Robberse<\/a>, whom they non-tendered last week. Both pitchers will be in big league Spring Training as non-roster invitees, though Robberse won\u2019t pitch after undergoing Tommy John surgery in May.<\/p>\n

Blewett, 30 in April, logged a career-high 44 1\/3 big league innings this past season. The righty divided that between three clubs: the Twins, Braves and Orioles. That included two stints in Baltimore, as the O\u2019s traded him to Atlanta in April and reacquired him two months later. Blewett combined for a 5.48 ERA across 26 appearances. He missed bats on a decent 12.7% of his pitches but was unable to convert that into many strikeouts. Blewett recorded a below-average 18% strikeout rate while walking 9.3% of opponents.<\/p>\n

A three-pitch reliever, Blewett leaned on his 84 MPH slider almost half the time. He sits in the 93-94 MPH range with his fastball and has a mid-80s splitter that he mixes in against left-handed batters. Blewett has yet to reach a year of service time but is out of minor league options, which limits teams\u2019 flexibility if he secures a spot on the 40-man roster. He\u2019ll battle for a middle relief spot in camp amidst an inexperienced St. Louis bullpen. If Kyle Leahy<\/a> wins a rotation job, the Cards would only have three relievers on the 40-man who have one full year of service. JoJo Romero<\/a> is likely to be traded this offseason, which would leave\u00a0Riley O\u2019Brien<\/a> and\u00a0Ryan Fernandez<\/a> as their most experienced relievers.<\/p>\n

Robberse has yet to reach the big leagues. The 24-year-old was acquired from the Blue Jays at the 2023 deadline in the\u00a0Jordan Hicks<\/a> trade. Robberse cracked the 40-man roster that offseason because the Cardinals didn\u2019t want to lose him in the Rule 5 draft. He spent the \u201924 season in Triple-A and was optioned back there to begin this year. Robberse underwent surgery a few weeks into the season.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals declined to tender him a contract last week. That dropped him from the 40-man roster and sent him to free agency without exposing him to the waiver wire. Teams frequently use the non-tender deadline to clear the back of the roster, often with the hope of re-signing the player to a minor league contract. (The Reds did the same<\/a> with\u00a0Carson Spiers<\/a>, who is also working back from elbow surgery, this afternoon.) Robberse will aim for a second-half return with Triple-A Memphis and look to pitch his way onto the MLB radar before year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals announced they\u2019ve signed reliever\u00a0Scott Blewett to a minor league contract. St. Louis also announced a minor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,71772,171708,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-307314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-scott-blewett","12":"tag-sem-robberse","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}