Right-handed cardinals Miles Mikolas He will undergo surgery to repair his right flexor tendon and will miss the rest of the 2020 season, baseball operations president John Mozeliak announced to reporters Tuesday (Twitter link via Mark Saxon of The Athletic). He has been placed on the right and disabled list. Jake Woodford it has been removed from the club’s alternate training site in a corresponding move. St. Louis also announced that Giovanny Gallegos has been activated from the disabled list. Right handed Daniel Ponce de Leon tomorrow will start against the Twins instead of Mikolas.
The loss of Mikolas is a notable blow to the St. Louis rotation. Since returning from a very successful season in Japan in 2018, Mikolas, 31, has given the Cards 384 2/3 innings of 3.44 ERA ball with averages of 6.8 strikeouts, 1.4 walks and 1.01 home runs for nine innings thrown. . The right-hander finished sixth in Cy Young’s 2018 National League vote and has made 32 starts in each of his two seasons with the Cards.
That alone would have been enough to make the two-year, $ 15.5MM deal Mikolas signed with the Cardinals in the 2017-18 offseason a huge success. But the Cardinals clearly saw the law as a key long-term asset, as they locked him in at a four-year, $ 68MM extension prior to the 2019 season. The current season is the first year of that new deal, and surgery for Important arm for Mikolas surely is not how the player or the team expected to start. The hope is that he will be ready for the 2021 season, Mozeliak added, though a more accurate timeline will become clearer after surgery.
Even without Mikolas, the Cardinals still have a talented group of starters. Young Jack flaherty it is emerging as one of the best weapons in the National League. Veterans join him Carlos Martinez and Adam Wainwright as well as his young companion Dakota Hudson in forming the four best Cardinal starters. Fifth-place option includes Woodford, left-handed Genesis Cabrera That’s right Alex Reyes, among others, though Reyes’ longstanding injury problems could make him more suitable for a relief role.
Letters opened the year with left-handed Kwang Hyun Kim in the bullpen, but the longtime KBO starter could move on to the rotation, with the aforementioned Gallegos taking over the job of the ninth inning. Left handed Ricardo Sanchez and right-handed Alvaro Seijas they’re both on the 40-man roster and on the team’s 60-man player pool as well.
