{"id":82796,"date":"2024-08-12T14:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=82796"},"modified":"2024-08-12T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:38:35","slug":"jordan-walker-recalled-to-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/12\/jordan-walker-recalled-to-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Place Veteran Infielder on IL, Recall Exciting Outfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals recalled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/walkejo02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Walker<\/a> from Triple-A Memphis and placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/carpema01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Carpenter<\/a> on the 10-day injured list on Monday. Walker, 22, posted a .747 OPS in 78 games with Memphis and finally found his footing, hitting .343\/.400\/.687 with five home runs. Per <em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/katiejwoo\/status\/1823054726990053456\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katie Woo of The Athletic<\/a><\/em>, the Cardinals inital plan is to use Walker mostly against left-handed pitching, but could play his way into starts against right-handers too. Walker had just a .497 OPS in 20 games for St. Louis earlier in the season before his demotion to the minors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roster Move: OF Jordan Walker has been recalled from Memphis (AAA).<\/p>\n<p>INF Matt Carpenter has been placed on the 10-day IL retroactive to August 9 (lower back strain). <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1P1EmY8bmJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1P1EmY8bmJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardinals\/status\/1823049682328670500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Cardinals Recall Jordan Walker<\/h2>\n<p>Walker made his MLB debut in 2023, ranking as high as a top-five prospect in baseball. Giving his struggles to adapt playing in the outfield, his natural position, third base is covered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/arenano01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nolan Arenado<\/a>. He was optioned near the end of April with a .274\/.321\/.397 batting line at that time. Walker returned in early June and looked like a different hitter. He hit .277\/.346\/.455 with 14 home runs with an improved 21.7 percent strikeout rate and 8.8 percent walk rate.<\/p>\n<p>This season began on a rough note for Walker who hit a .155\/.239\/.259 batting line in 67 plate appearances. The slump would lead to Walker being <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/24\/cardinals-former-top-prospect\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">demoted to work on his swing<\/a> and come back to majors improved at the plate. Walker eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/11\/alec-burleson-confidence-cardinals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">found his form again<\/a> his last 17 games, hitting .324 with five home runs in that stretch. He only struck out 18 times and walking six times.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis will hope to see more of that potential from Walker. Walker will give the Cardinals another right-handed bat to help attacking opposing left-handers. Their combined .233\/.296\/.359 slash against left-handers is a clear sign of struggles, but Walker has had his struggles too. He batted .231\/.294\/.389 against left-handers last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals have spent a majority of the summer in the hint for a Wild Card spot in the National League. They dropped a game and a half behind the Atlanta Braves, who currently hold the final spot. The New York Mets are a game ahead of the Cardinals, who are also vying for a Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals recalled Jordan Walker from Triple-A Memphis and placed Matt Carpenter on the 10-day injured list on Monday. Walker, 22, posted a .747 OPS in 78 games with Memphis and finally found his footing, hitting .343\/.400\/.687 with five home runs. Per Katie Woo of The Athletic, the Cardinals inital plan is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":82797,"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":[6383,344,213],"class_list":["post-82796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardinals","category-mlb","category-news","tag-jordan-walker","tag-matt-carpenter","tag-nolan-arenado"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82796","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=82796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}