{"id":77421,"date":"2024-06-21T13:51:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=77421"},"modified":"2024-06-21T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:51:35","slug":"cardinals-giovanny-gallegos-returns-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/21\/cardinals-giovanny-gallegos-returns-injured-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Veteran Reliever Returns From Injured List, Option Pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals activated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gallegi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giovanny Gallegos<\/a> from the 15-day injured list Friday. The Cardinals have optioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kloffad01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Kloffenstein<\/a> to Triple-A Memphis as a corresponding move. St. Louis has a rare Friday off day, but it will have Gallegos back in their bullpen Saturday. The veteran reliever has been out since early May with a right shoulder impingement but didn&#8217;t pitch well on a rehab assignment. Gallegos allowed eight runs with a 5:4 K:BB over 6 1\/3 innings. He will likely be eased into high-leverage situations once he gets more innings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roster News: RHP Giovanny Gallegos has been activated from the 15-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>RHP Adam Kloffenstein has been optioned to Memphis (AAA).<\/p>\n<p>OF Victor Scott II has been returned to Memphis after serving as the 27th player for last night&#8217;s game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4zvy7ssHcP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4zvy7ssHcP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardinals\/status\/1804198242197905582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kloffenstein made his MLB debut Thursday night at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/19\/rickwood-field-mlb-history\/\" target=\"_self\">Rickwood Field<\/a>, coming out of the bullpen to pitch a quick inning in the eighth of the Cardinals 6-5 win against the San Francisco Giants. Kloffenstein was acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/07\/30\/blue-jays-trade-fantasy\/\" target=\"_self\"> in a deal for<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hicksjo03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Hicks<\/a> at the trade deadline. Since coming to the Cardinals organization, Kloffenstein has put up strong numbers. This season, he has a 3.97 ERA through 77 innings in 14 games. The Cardinals also announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scottvi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Scott II<\/a> was optioned back to the minors with Kloffenstein.<\/p>\n<h2>Giovanny Gallegos Activated from Injured List<\/h2>\n<p>Gallegos, 32, allowed 12 runs in nine innings before landing on the injured list. It was a surprising showing from a pitcher like Gallegos, who is usually solid on the mound. From 2019-23, Gallegos was one of the reliable bullpen arms the Cardinals relied on. He posted a combined 3.14 ERA with an exceptional 30.7 percent strikeout rate against a 6.4 percent walk rate in 238 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Gallegos is in the second season of a two-year, $11 million contract with a $6.5 million club option. Suppose he can look like his former self upon his return; that makes it an easy call for the Cardinals to pick it up. However, his disastrous start to the 2024 season says otherwise at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 John Geliebter-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals activated Giovanny Gallegos from the 15-day injured list Friday. The Cardinals have optioned Adam Kloffenstein to Triple-A Memphis as a corresponding move. St. Louis has a rare Friday off day, but it will have Gallegos back in their bullpen Saturday. The veteran reliever has been out since early May with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":77422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1071,35],"tags":[2047,2604,2601,36],"class_list":["post-77421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardinals","category-mlb","category-news","tag-adam-kloffenstein","tag-giovanny-gallegos","tag-jordan-hicks","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77421","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\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}