{"id":19077,"date":"2019-04-22T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=19077"},"modified":"2019-04-22T20:25:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T00:25:58","slug":"cardinals-place-michael-wacha-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/04\/22\/cardinals-place-michael-wacha-injured-list\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals Place Michael Wacha on Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have announced that starting pitcher Michael Wacha has been placed on the 10-day Injured List due to left knee tendinitis. The move is retroactive to April 19. In order to fill a roster spot, the club recalled utility-man Drew Robinson from Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>Wacha currently has a 1-0 record and sports a\u00a04.64 ERA in four starts in 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have recalled INF\/OF Drew Robinson from Memphis (AAA) and placed RHP Michael Wacha (left knee patellar tendinitis) on the 10-day IL, retroactive to April 19. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BkkQQMCtzM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/BkkQQMCtzM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardinals\/status\/1120365223041470465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>Michael Wacha Placed on Injured List<\/h1>\n<h2>Wacha Off to Good Start<\/h2>\n<p>Despite struggling with command issues, Wacha has put together a solid 2019 campaign. The Cardinals right-hander currently leads the team with 24 strikeouts in 21.1 innings pitched, which has resulted in a career-best\u00a010.1 K\/9 mark.<\/p>\n<p>After a rough outing against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Wacha responded against a talented Milwaukee Brewers lineup. He completed six strong innings of two-run baseball with seven strikeouts while picking up his first win of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michael Wacha with 6+ strong innings to go along with 7 strikeouts! ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RDhcO7ctTN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/RDhcO7ctTN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardinals\/status\/1118603378177789957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Tough Break for Wacha<\/h3>\n<p>With free agency looming, Wacha was looking to not only have a great year on the mound but also attempt to stay healthy. Injuries have plagued Wacha in the past, and the hope for 2019 was that it would be a different story.\u00a0Wacha will enter free agency at the young age of 28 and will likely receive a lot of interest from front offices around Major League Baseball. However, having only pitched 84.1 innings in 2018 and\u00a0averaging just 24 starts per season since becoming a component in the St. Louis rotation, there will be many General Managers wondering if Wacha is worth the cost.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like returning from the Injured List and staying healthy for the rest of 2019 might be the make or break point for Wacha in hopes of signing an immense contract in this upcoming off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"Ow6vD5ZNTTx3IFMVMqmpSA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1143399064\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Ow6vD5ZNTTx3IFMVMqmpSA',sig:'_k6JyH8YvDmPAy5061lJFUDDLs8SKqXklrmywkG4WrI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1143399064',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have placed starting pitcher Michael Wacha on the 10-day Injured List due to left knee tendinitis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2924,"featured_media":19094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1071,35],"tags":[68,2513,726,507,69,168],"class_list":["post-19077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardinals","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-injured-list","tag-michael-wacha","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"modified_by":"DJ Kleinbard","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}