2017 St. Louis Cardinals season
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| Owner(s) |
William DeWitt, Jr. Fred Hanser |
| Manager(s) | Mike Matheny |
| Local television |
Fox Sports Midwest (Dan McLaughlin, Al Hrabosky, Rick Horton, Tim McCarver, Jim Edmonds) |
| Local radio |
KMOX NewsRadio 1120 St. Louis Cardinals Radio Network (Mike Shannon, John Rooney, Rick Horton, Mike Claiborne) |
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ESPN.com BB-reference |
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The St. Louis Cardinals 2017 season will be the 136th for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in St. Louis, Missouri, the 126th season in the National League (NL), and the 12th at Busch Stadium III.
Commissioner Rob Manfred levied a severe penalty, Jan. 30, 2017, on the Cardinals organization from former scouting director Chris Correa's hacking of the Houston Astros database in 2013 and 2014, who was fired by early-July 2015, and is now serving out a 46-month sentence (for unlawfully accessing another company's information) that began in July 2016, and ordered to pay a $279,038 fine. The Cardinals must give the Astros their No. 56 overall selection, part of the Draft's second round, and the No. 75 overall selection, part of Compensation Round B. St. Louis does not possess a first-round pick in this year's Draft. Additionally, the team must pay the Astros $2 million. No other person was responsible for hacking into the Astros' database. Correa has been placed on baseball's permanently ineligible list.
Former Cubs' center fielder and free agent Dexter Fowler signed with the Cardinals on December 9, 2016, for $82.5 mil. over 5-years. The contract includes a full no-trade clause.
After an MRI, Alex Reyes, 22 (RHP), was diagnosed with a partial UCL tear in his elbow on February 14, and will have Tommy John surgery, losing him for the entire 2017 season. General manager John Mozeliak said an MRI taken of Reyes' elbow in 2013 showed a strain. He didn't begin his minor league season until June that season. Hw made his major league debut Aug. 9, 2016, and was 4-1 with a 1.57 ERA in five starts and seven relief appearances, with 52 strikeouts in 46 innings. MLBPipeline.com ranks him the #3 pitching prospect in baseball, and #14 overall. ESPN's Keith Law has Reyes ranked as the #2 pitching prospect in baseball.
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