# Cardinals Reduce Spring Roster to 35

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/cardinals-reduce-spring-roster-to-35/
- Published: 2024-03-23T08:30:20-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **_CARDINALS REDUCE SPRING ROSTER TO 35_**

#### **_SIX PLAYERS SENT TO MINOR LEAGUE CAMP_**

[⌊Cardinals News⌉⌊Cardinals News⌉[

**JUPITER, Fla., March 23, 2024 **– The [St. Louis Cardinals](https://www.mlb.com/cardinals/)
announced today that the team has reduced its Spring Training roster to 35 players,
sending six players to their minor league camp.

The team optioned RHP **_[Nick Robertson](https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?pid=roberni01,robert007nic&search=Nick+Robertson&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br),_**
1B **_[Luken Baker](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bakerlu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)_**,
1B/OF **_[Alfonso Rivas](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rivasal01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)
III_** and 1B/OF **_[Jared Young](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/youngja02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)_**
to the Memphis (AAA) roster, and re-assigned INF **_[César Prieto](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=prieto000ces&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)_**
and OF **_[Victor Scott](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=scott-003vic&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)
II_** to their minor league camp.

The team currently has 34 Major League roster players and one non-roster invitee
remaining in its Major League camp.

**— STL —** 

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None of the optioned players were a surprise.

Baker is probably the guy who is closest to a regular in the Majors, but being limited
to first base/DH on a team with [Paul Goldschmidt](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/goldspa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br),
[Matt Carpenter](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/carpema01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br),
[Brendan Donovan](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/donovbr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br),
and [Nolan Gorman](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gormano01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)
ahead of him limits what he can do for the team. They really should have looked 
at packaging him for a pitcher.

The real news is sending Prieto and Scott II down; both were making serious strides
to break camp with the team, but this is the correct move.

There is a lot of infield depth on the roster, so it would have been tough for Prieto
to get playing time.

Scott would have been a temporary fix until [Tommy Edman](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/edmanto01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)
and [Lars Nootbaar](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nootbla01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)
came off the IL. The decision was easier with [Dylan Carlson](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/carlsdy01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)
[heating up](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2024/03/redbird-droppings-edman-carlson-2024-rotation-depth/);
it may also allow the team to see what [Alec Burleson](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burleal01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)
can do with some regular at bats from left field.

[Thomas Saggese](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=sagges000tho&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-23_br)
is now the lone non-roster player in camp.

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