{"id":873478,"date":"2026-08-27T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873478\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:38:11","slug":"cardinals-select-cade-winquest-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873478\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Select Cade Winquest – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cardinals announced Thursday that they\u2019ve selected the contract of right-hander Cade Winquest<\/a> from Triple-A Memphis. Right-hander Peter Strzelecki<\/a> heads to the 15-day injured list due to extensor inflammation in his right forearm, which opens a spot on the 26-man roster. St. Louis already had an open 40-man roster spot, so no further moves are necessary.<\/p>\n

Winquest nearly made his major league debut earlier this season. The Yankees picked him up in last December\u2019s Rule 5 Draft \u2014 a rare move for a club that rarely makes Rule 5 selections \u2014 and wound up carrying him on their Opening Day roster. However, despite spending more than two weeks on New York\u2019s active roster, the Yankees never plugged him into a game for his big league debut. He was designated for assignment on April 10 and returned to the Cardinals after passing through waivers unclaimed. He\u2019ll now join a 40-man roster without those Rule 5 restrictions (which prevent him from being optioned) and should be in line to make his MLB debut in earnest.<\/p>\n

Since being returned to the Cardinals, Winquest has turned 26 years old and has pitched his way onto the big league radar for St. Louis. He\u2019s tossed 39 2\/3 innings of relief in Memphis, and although his 4.54 ERA is unspectacular, there\u2019s plenty to like beyond that surface-level mark.<\/p>\n

Winquest has had a handful of rocky outings (a pair of three-run hiccups and a four-run meltdown) but is on a roll at the moment, having rattled off 10 1\/3 shutout innings with just three hits allowed and a 17-to-5 K\/BB ratio along the way. Overall, he\u2019s punched out a gaudy 34.8% of his Triple-A opponents against a solid 8.5% walk rate. The right-hander is also sporting a sizable 51.1% ground-ball rate, which will play well with the Cardinals\u2019 premium infield defense in the long term (although said defense is weakened right now with Masyn Winn<\/a> on the injured list). He\u2019s sitting 95.2 mph on his four-seamer and 95.6 mph on his sinker, and he\u2019s posted swinging-strike and contact rates that are both comfortably better than the major league average.<\/p>\n

Had Winquest not reached the majors again with the Cardinals or another club, he\u2019d have had the strange distinction of being a nominal big leaguer who accrued 19 days of major league service \u2014 players receive major league service and salary while in DFA limbo \u2014 without ever actually getting into a game. It\u2019s technically still possible that he could hold onto that pseudo-big leaguer status, if the Cardinals option him out and don\u2019t recall him, but in all likelihood he\u2019ll finally make his big league debut in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals announced Thursday that they\u2019ve selected the contract of right-hander Cade Winquest from Triple-A Memphis. Right-hander Peter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,163407,48,462,303259,82],"class_list":["post-873478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-cade-winquest","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-peter-strzelecki","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873478","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=873478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}