9:42 am: According to Katie Woo of Track and Field, Maton’s contract guarantees 2mm.
7:47 AM: The Cardinal announced this morning that they had signed right-handed Phil Marton Achieve a year of Major League Baseball. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. left handed Bailey Horn It was designated as an allocation to make room for Maton in the club’s 40-man lineup.
Later this month, Maton, 32, was one of the better relief weapons still being offered in the free agent market late in the calendar. Maton was selected in the 20th round of the Padres in 2015, and Maton will fit his ninth MLB season cardinal and hopes to continue a range of quality work starting with the 2022 Astros. Maton struggled his career in the first five quarters of the first five seasons, with a solid peripheral 4.76 ERA in the 215 1/3 Inservants of 209 jobs despite solid peripherals. During that time, he beat 26.4% of his opponents at 9.2%. The numbers have been good enough over the years to keep the roster in San Diego and Cleveland, but he ended up finishing in Houston later in the 2021 season.
Righty’s mid-range score lasted until the end of 2021, but by the start of the 2022 season, the Switch seemed to have flipped. His 25.2% strikeout rate and 8.2% walk rate have not been significantly different over the last three seasons, but his early career performance has improved significantly as he scored 3.50 ERA in 195 2/3 innings in 206 games and 4.11 FIP in 195 2/3 innings.
In his first free agent career in his pre-2024 season, Marton signed with the Rays but struggled with a 4.58 ERA last year on 40 appearances. Fortunately for the right-hander, he was traded to the Mets for a stretching game, turned around and dominated the 2.51 ERA in the last 31 games of the regular season.
Now, Maton will head to St. Louis, perhaps the club’s first major league free agent to sign, which will be the offseason. Cardinal’s winter plan is largely a troubled by the inability to find trading partners for senior third basemen Nolan Arenadoresulting in a very quiet offseason, which is defined by the departure of major veterans. Paul Goldschmidt In free agent.
Despite the lack of activity this offseason, the Cardinals have long wanted a senior relief arm that can play the role Andrew Kittrech Last year, playing football and building a bridge closer Ryan Helsley and the rest of the relatively young late-stage combinations. Now, they seem to have found Marton’s players, who have only five careers but have recorded 42 in the past three seasons.
Horn is making room for Maton in a 40-man roster, the fifth-round pick for the White Sox in the 2020 draft. The 27-year-old left-handed was traded to the Bear in exchange for Ryan Tepera The 2021 trade deadline was eventually added to his new club’s 40-man roster, but did not make his major league debut in Chicago. Last February, he was traded back to the White Sox to clear a 40-man roster to return Cody Bellingerbut was then designated as a task and traded to Boston in April. He made his major league debut for the Red Sox last June but struggled with 6.50 ERA and 7.00 FIP in 18 innings.
During the offseason, Horn was designated as a mission by the Red Sox but was exempted by the Tigers in November. He lasted for a month in Detroit’s 40-man roster and was exempted from St. Louis in early January. Now, he may return to the exempt wire for the fourth time in the past 11 months. The Cardinal will have a week’s trading horn or give him a waiver, and any club willing to provide him with a 40-man roster can ask him.
If Horn clears the immunity, the Cardinal will have the opportunity to choose him as a non-member deep. That said, Horn is a viable left-handed relief hand, his heater averages 95 miles per hour and has a record of missing bats among upper minors. Despite his uneventful results in professional grades last year, he could make him an attractive candidate for waiver claims.
