{"id":74100,"date":"2024-05-22T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=74100"},"modified":"2024-05-22T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:11:29","slug":"ryan-loutos-cardinals-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/22\/ryan-loutos-cardinals-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cardinals App Developer Promoted to Major League Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Cardinals called up Ryan Loutos<\/a> on Monday. The unique thing about Loutous is that started working for the club as an app programmer. Loutos graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2021 with a computer science degree. He joined the Cardinals as a programmer soon after and wrote most of the coding framework for the pitching development app still used throughout the organization.<\/p>\n

Loutos pitched at Washington University in college and helped bring them to the Division III World Series. He was undrafted out of college. Loutos wrote code for the Cardinals in the Winter of 2021-’22 before leaving the desk job for the baseball diamond in 2022 signing a minor league deal with the organization.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got most of my life to work, I’m not worried about coding right now in that capacity where I could be sitting at a desk right now,” Loutos told KSDK in 2022<\/a> when he joined the Cardinals Double-A affiliate. So many people would rather be in my shoes. That’s not the reason why you do it, it’s more like I want to still be out here and in the sun every day playing the great game of baseball. Yeah, it’s tough sometimes, but I can tell you the tough times here are way better than the tough times with the alternative.”<\/p>\n

A Dream Come True for Ryan Loutos<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One of the first things he did when started school at Washington University was go see the Cardinals play.<\/p>\n

“The first week of school at Wash U back in the fall of ’17 coming to, I think it might have been a Cards-Cubs game, and sitting all the way up, way up high, $10 tickets or whatever it was,” Loutos said in his first big-league media availability. “Looking down, I remember seeing [Jack] Flaherty running in from the bullpen. It’s just pretty cool that however many years later I’m here.”<\/p>\n

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WashU product Ryan Loutos on his first MLB callup: “First week of school WashU back in the fall of ’17 coming to, I think what might’ve been a Cubs\/Cardinals game, and sitting all the way up…It’s pretty cool that however many years later now I’m here.” #STLCards<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/QTngoGHraC<\/a><\/p>\n

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