{"id":797077,"date":"2026-07-13T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:25:08","slug":"cardinals-release-bligh-madris-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797077\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Release Bligh Madris – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cardinals released Bligh Madris<\/a>, according to the first baseman\/outfielder\u2019s MLB.com profile page<\/a>.\u00a0 The Cardinal National\u2019s Brian Walton reports<\/a> that Madris is headed to South Korea to play for a KBO League team.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Madris signed a minor league contract with St. Louis last winter, and he has hit .277\/.389\/.519 with 14 home runs over 284 plate appearances with Triple-A Memphis.\u00a0 These big numbers didn\u2019t result in a call-up to the majors, however, as Madris\u2019 primary position of first base is naturally already covered by a prominent left-handed bat in Alec Burleson<\/a>.\u00a0 Most of the Cardinals\u2019 outfielders are also lefty bats and Ivan Herrera<\/a> is getting most of the DH at-bats, plus the rebuilding Cards team is more committed to giving playing time to younger players than a 30-year-old depth player.<\/p>\n

Without any injuries opening up roster space, Madris has instead parlayed his Triple-A success into a KBO contract.\u00a0 He\u2019ll now make a larger guaranteed salary as he heads overseas for the second time in his pro career, following a brief stint in the Australian Baseball League during their 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n

Madris has hit .255\/.350\/.450 over 2085 PA in Triple-A, but he hasn\u2019t approached that level of production during his three big league seasons.\u00a0 He had a respectable .269\/.324\/.358 slash line in 75 PA with the Tigers in 2024, but his career slash is just .204\/.273\/.286 over 228 PA for Pittsburgh, Houston, and Detroit from 2022-24.\u00a0 The Tigers re-signed Madris to a new minors contract after outrighting him following the 2024 season, but injuries limited Madris to 60 minor league games in 2025 without any time in the Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals released Bligh Madris, according to the first baseman\/outfielder\u2019s MLB.com profile page.\u00a0 The Cardinal National\u2019s Brian Walton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-797077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797077","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=797077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}