{"id":605009,"date":"2026-04-13T22:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605009\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:43:10","slug":"yankees-return-rule-5-draft-pick-cade-winquest-to-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605009\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees return Rule 5 draft pick Cade Winquest to Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Cade Winquest&#8217;s <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2b9cedf3-ce60-0bcf-fafe-8cd055255685\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> career ended without him throwing a pitch that counted.<\/p>\n<p>New York returned the 25-year-old right-hander to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c781e7c6-2c5b-beaf-55b8-999c76f76661\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> on Monday, three days after he was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Winquest was selected from St. Louis during the Rule 5 draft at December&#8217;s winter meetings and became the Yankees&#8217; first Rule 5 player to make the opening day roster since infielder Josh Phelps in 2007. He didn&#8217;t get into any regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis paid $50,000 for Winquest after the Yankees paid $100,000 to select him at the draft.<\/p>\n<p>He went 0-1 with a 7.20 ERA over nine spring training appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Cade Winquest&#8217;s New York Yankees career ended without him throwing a pitch that counted. New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-605009","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605009","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=605009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}