{"id":631461,"date":"2026-04-27T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631461\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:58:15","slug":"cardinals-to-promote-hunter-dobbins-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631461\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals To Promote Hunter Dobbins On Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cardinals are three games into a stretch of 17 games in 17 days, and this busy schedule has presented an opening for Hunter Dobbins<\/a> to make his Cards debut.\u00a0 Manager Oli Marmol told reporters (including Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat<\/a>) that Dobbins will be called up from Triple-A to make a spot start on Thursday when the Cardinals wrap up their four-game series with the Pirates.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s game will mark Dobbins\u2019 first appearance in a St. Louis uniform, and his first MLB outing since he tore his right ACL during a fielding play last July 11 when Dobbins was still pitching with the Red Sox.\u00a0 Between that season-ending injury and an elbow strain that kept him on the injured list for three weeks, Dobbins\u2019 first Major League season was limited to 61 innings.<\/p>\n

The right-hander had a respectable 4.13 ERA and a solid 6.6% walk rate, though his strikeout and whiff rates were well below average.\u00a0 Between the ACL tear and the fact that the Sox had several other young pitchers ahead of Dobbins on the depth chart, Dobbins was one of three pitchers dealt to St. Louis in December in exchange for Willson Contreras<\/a>.\u00a0 Prospects Yhoiker Fajardo<\/a> and Blake Aita<\/a> were more long-term projects, but in Dobbins, the Cardinals landed a big league-ready starter who was ready to contribute in 2026 once his ACL rehab was complete.<\/p>\n

Over five Triple-A starts this season, Dobbins has a 4.37 ERA, 19.8% strikeout rate, and 9.4% walk rate in 22 2\/3 innings.\u00a0 The end of his 30-day rehab period lines up well with this extended stretch of games for the Cardinals, so Dobbins can fit right into the rotation for at least one turn.<\/p>\n

As expected for a rebuilding team\u2019s pitching staff, the Cardinals haven\u2019t gotten much out of their rotation to date.\u00a0 Michael McGreevy<\/a>\u2018s elite walk has carried him to strong results despite one of the lowest strikeout rates in baseball, but Matthew Liberatore<\/a>, Dustin May<\/a>, Andre Pallante<\/a>, and Kyle Leahy<\/a> have all struggled to varying degrees.\u00a0 Dobbins may not be viewed as a front-of-the-rotation type, but a good showing on Thursday would both achieve some peace of mind for the righty after his long rehab, and likely earn him more starts down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals are three games into a stretch of 17 games in 17 days, and this busy schedule…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,72540,462,82],"class_list":["post-631461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hunter-dobbins","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}