St. Louis Cardinals: Roster Shuffles in Wake of DL News

The St. Louis Cardinals have placed second baseman, Matt Carpenter, on the disabled list after last night’s early exit.

Sound the alarms: the St. Louis Cardinals have placed Matt Carpenter on the disabled list.  In the wake of this, they have called up Michael McKenry.  Carpenter’s stint on the DL will be for at least fifteen days due to the oblique injury suffered in last night’s game.

Much is being written about Carpenter and his impact for the St. Louis Cardinals.  Just jump over to Twitter and do a search for his name and countless tweets fill your screen.

He will be missed this is for sure.  I wrote last night about how the St. Louis Cardinals could turn this all around and look at this in the positive.  In that article, I sited Carp’s statistics and they are impressive this season.  Go have a read if you haven’t yet.

To add to this conundrum, Bob Rains noted the following on Twitter this morning and my heart sank:

While I tried to paint a happy picture of things last night, especially in light of letting other players show what they’ve got, I am now genuinely worried.  Let me say this, however, I do feel that the St. Louis Cardinals can survive this.  Let me tell you how and why.

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First, as I said last night, I feel that other players will need to rise to the challenge.  I feel that this is doable.

Second, I feel that his absence will highlight the weaknesses of positions such that Mozeliak will be forced to find help in the trade market.

Finally, Carp will rejoin the team at a time when his reappearance will feel like another monster trade.  This might be the best news yet.  Let’s hope that the reinforcements in his absence keep the team in contention enough that that his return will be of impact and not for naught.

Some other fallout of the assignment to the disabled list…  The purchase of the contract of McKenry affects the Memphis Redbirds in that it leaves them without a catcher.

On the positive side of the fallout is that Aledmys Diaz was announced this morning as replacing Carpenter on this year’s All-Star roster.  Good for Aledmys but frustrating for Carpenter.

Next: Time to Play Angrily

I know I keep writing that we must now wait to see what happens but we are simply stuck for the time in a holding pattern until something drastic occurs.  This something might be sitting just days away as the team must now face this new reality.  Stay tuned for more updates from us!