Foot blister sends Cardinals LHP Miller to IL

Have observe of the Cardinals’ fresh transactions and injury updates at some level of the season.

Aug. 28: RHP Andrew Miller (left foot blister) placed on 10-day injured checklist

The Cardinals will be without their feeble lefty, who’s facing a blister on his left foot after missing all of Could per chance additionally merely with a blister on his apt foot. His IL placement is retroactive to Aug. 27.

Aug. 28: RHP Kodi Whitley recalled from Triple-A Memphis

Whitley returns to the club for the indispensable time since Could per chance additionally merely 24, when he went on the IL with abet spasms. Anticipated to be a valued cog this season, he’s started to search out his rhythm at Memphis and may be pleased to now rep the prospect to protest himself all over again.

Aug. 25: RHP Jack Flaherty (apt shoulder strain) placed on 10-day IL

Three starts after returning from his first IL stint of 2021, Flaherty returns with a shoulder ailment. Given the timing of the schedule, or no longer it is hazardous if Flaherty will pitch again this season.

Aug. 25: RHP Junior Fernández recalled from Triple-A Memphis

Fernández, who recorded his first profession elevate in his final callup, returns to bolster the Cardinals’ bullpen and provide length.

LHP Andrew Miller (left foot blister)

Anticipated return: TBD

Miller, who neglected all of Could per chance additionally merely with a blister on his apt foot, will now disappear out some time with a blister on the different foot. The left-hander had been wearing original orthotics since his final injury and has since proceeded to pitch to a substantial increased in kind in the final year of his contract. His absence leaves the Cardinals with perfect two lefties of their bullpen. (Closing updated: Aug. 28)

RHP Jack Flaherty (apt shoulder strain)

Anticipated return: Tiresome September (if in any respect)

Flaherty’s scans taken Aug. 25 — which published his shoulder strain — had been sent around for a second belief that the Cardinals are staring at for to hear abet on. Preliminary scans showed no structural damage, however the Cardinals are doing their due diligence and gathering all input. The apt-hander’s return this season is hazardous after he used to be eradicated from his Aug. 24 open after two-plus innings with a apt shoulder injury; the timing may well also merely no longer allow Flaherty to create abet up as he’s been shut down from throwing.

This IL stint is the second of the season for Flaherty, and the second of his profession — he neglected 2 1/2 months from the terminate of Could per chance additionally merely into August with a left indirect strain, which incorporated a partial streak. But with fastballs sitting under 90 mph in his final open, he used to be eradicated after permitting abet-to-abet homers to the Tigers. St. Louis has traditionally exerted impolite warning with the 25-year-ancient starter. (Closing updated: Aug. 27)

LHP Wade LeBlanc (left elbow bother)

Anticipated return: Tiresome September (if in any respect)

LeBlanc felt some discomfort on Aug. 24 after throwing his first bullpen session for the reason that injury, casting some doubt on if he’ll have the chance to return this season. The club is letting him recover earlier than charting his subsequent steps, but manager Mike Shildt admitted that the timeline of the season may well also merely no longer allow LeBlanc to create abet up for a return. If that is the case, it will per chance be a deflating terminate to the advertising campaign for the free-agent-to-be, a capable starter who stabilized the rotation when he used to be signed in June.

LeBlanc sustained the injury when he left his Aug. 12 open after perfect 30 pitches, having started to in point of fact feel the train jam in earlier than in the break no longer being in a position to continue. He acknowledged he used to be nervous that he used to be pitching himself precise into a stress fracture, like the one he continued in 2020, but he believed he saved himself from any extreme injury earlier than basically the latest flare-up. (Closing updated: Aug. 26)

RHP Justin Miller (apt ulnar nerve irritation)

Anticipated return: Mid-to-unhurried September (if in any respect)

Miller has started to renew having fun with dispute, which is his finest step since being shut down for perfect under two weeks. The apt-hander felt some tingling in his apt arm, but scans showed no structural damage. (Closing updated: Aug. 26)

RHP Ryan Helsley (apt elbow stress reaction, left knee surgery)

Anticipated return: 2022

It would be a “long shot” for Helsley to return this season, in line with president of baseball operations John Mozeliak, as the righty is decided to undergo an arthroscopic map on his left (landing) knee while already wanting more time for his apt elbow injury to heal earlier than he had any hope of ramping abet up by the terminate of September.

Helsley, who sustained the elbow injury due to the in kind wear and streak, used to be jam to refrain from throwing for roughly 5 to 6 days earlier than the Cardinals extra solid doubt on his chance to return this season. No structural damage has been converse in his elbow. (Closing updated: Aug. 25)

RHP Dakota Hudson (Tommy John surgery)

Anticipated return: Mid-to-unhurried September

Hudson will create his long-awaited Minor League rehab debut on Aug. 28 and throw around 30 pitches for Low-A Palm Seaside. It will sign his first game motion since present process Tommy John surgery in September 2020. Hudson has wished to return to the Critical Leagues this season, but whether or no longer he’s willing to total so will depend on how his rehab outings perambulate from a recovery standpoint. The apt-hander continues to examine properly for a return by Opening Day 2022, no no longer up to, and abet into the rotation. (Closing updated: Aug. 27)

RHP Carlos Martínez (apt thumb ligament sprain)

Anticipated return: 2022

Manager Mike Shildt acknowledged on Aug. 26 that expecting a return for Martínez this season would be like “holding your breath and passing out.” Martínez is with the club, but he has no longer thrown since his surgery in mid-July to repair a ligament in his apt thumb. Shildt acknowledged a return hasn’t been ruled out 100 percent, but “or no longer it’d be laborious for him to total.” If Martínez does disappear out the the relaxation of the year, he may well also merely be pleased thrown his final pitch for the Cardinals earlier than his exit on July 4; the club holds an possibility on the apt-hander for subsequent year, which they’re no longer expected to take up. (Closing updated: Aug. 26)

RHP Jordan Hicks (apt elbow inflammation)

Anticipated return: 2022

President of baseball operations John Mozeliak solid doubt on Hicks’ possibilities to return this season, announcing there does no longer seem like ample time for the apt-hander to ramp abet up and return in September, and even at some level of the Minor League season. Mozeliak had no longer too long previously acknowledged that the club is merely hoping to search out a bunch for Hicks to pitch over the winter perfect to “rep a sense of the set he’s at.” Hicks returned to throwing bullpen sessions on Aug. 16, marking his first time doing so since his injury on the open of Could per chance additionally merely, but that is also the extent of the motion he will get at some level of the in kind season.

The Cardinals be pleased been extremely cautious with the 24-year-ancient, given that his final pitch thrown on Could per chance additionally merely 1 used to be section of an nearly two-year return to the mound, after Tommy John surgery in 2019 and opting out of the 2020 season. Hicks, who got an elbow injection in mid-Could per chance additionally merely, used to be in a elephantine relaxation mode for over a month originate air of in kind conditioning activities, after the club initially expressed optimism about an August return. (Closing updated: Aug. 25)

2B Max Moroff (left shoulder subluxation)

Anticipated return: 2022

The Cardinals transferred Moroff to the 60-day IL on June 17 to create room on the 40-man roster. Moroff had been placed on the 10-day IL on Could per chance additionally merely 29, then he had opted for season-ending surgery on his left shoulder on June 6 after his bat got caught in the batting cage on an awkward swing. This may seemingly opt the Cardinals infielder about seven months to recover from the surgery. (Closing updated: June 17)