{"id":675425,"date":"2026-05-16T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675425\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:59:08","slug":"cardinals-designate-jared-shuster-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675425\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Designate Jared Shuster For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cardinals announced that left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/shustja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jared Shuster<\/a> has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 The move opens up roster space for right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pushama01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Pushard<\/a>, who is back from the 15-day injured list after recovering from patellar tendinitis in his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>It was a little over a month ago that Shuster was first DFA\u2019ed by the Cards, and the southpaw was outrighted to Triple-A after clearing waivers.\u00a0 Shuster chose to accept that assignment rather than opt for free agency, so he\u2019ll face that decision again if he again clears waivers this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Because Shuster is out of minor league options, he\u2019ll have to be designated for assignment whenever the Cardinals or another team wants to send him down to Triple-A or create space on a 26-man roster.\u00a0 Given this state of perpetual roster limbo, Shuster might prefer to somewhat reduce the tumult by just staying with St. Louis, so he\u2019d at least have the familiarity of remaining in the same organization.\u00a0 That said, if Shuster feels his big league opportunities will be limited with the Cards, he could choose to test the market this time around.<\/p>\n<p>It also isn\u2019t out of the question that Shuster is claimed off waivers, given how teams are perpetually in need of left-handed pitching depth.\u00a0 The Athletics claimed Shuster away from the White Sox last August, when Shuster was DFA\u2019ed for the first time in his career.\u00a0 Shuster has a 2.35 ERA over the small sample of 7 2\/3 innings for St. Louis this season, plus an 8.38 ERA over 9 2\/3 frames for Triple-A Memphis \u2014 ironically, his peripheral numbers in the Show are unimpressive while his metrics in Triple-A have been pretty solid, though both represent small sample sizes.<\/p>\n<p>Selected 25th overall by Atlanta in the 2020 draft, Shuster has only a 5.12 ERA, 15% strikeout rate, and 10.1% walk rate to show for 149 1\/3 MLB innings with the Braves, White Sox, and Cardinals.\u00a0 Shuster\u2019s brief time in the Athletics\u2019 organization ended without any big league action, and he signed with St. Louis on a minor league deal during the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals announced that left-hander Jared Shuster has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 The move opens up roster space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,325614,325615,591,85],"class_list":["post-675425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jared-shuster","tag-matt-pushard","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675425","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=675425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}