# Cardinals Reduce Spring Roster To 41 By Sending 5 To Minor League Camp

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/cardinals-reduce-spring-roster-to-41-by-sending-5-to-minor-league-camp/
- Published: 2024-03-21T08:23:33-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **Cardinals Reduce Spring Roster To 41**

#### **Five Players Re-Assigned To Minor League Camp**

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**JUPITER, Fla., March 21, 2024 **– The [St. Louis Cardinals](https://www.mlb.com/cardinals/)
announced today that the team has reduced its Spring Training roster to 41 players,
sending five players to their minor league camp.

The team re-assigned the following non-roster players to their minor league camp:
RHP **_[Kyle Leahy](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leahyky01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br),_**
RHP **_[Wilking Rodriguez](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodriwi02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br)_**,
catchers **_[Nick Raposo](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=raposo000nic&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br)_**
and **_[Wade Stauss](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=stauss000wad&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br)_**,
and outfielder **_[Matt Koperniak](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=kopern000mat&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br)_**.

The team currently has 38 Major League roster players and three non-roster invitees
remaining in its Major League camp.

**— STL —**

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Just as the [last](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2024/03/cardinals-trim-10-players-from-spring-roster/)
[few](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2024/03/cardinals-reduce-spring-roster-to-56/) [announcements](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2024/03/cardinals-cut-10-to-reduce-spring-roster-to-46/),
no surprises here.

Rodriguez would have been a nice story as a Rule V guy who got hurt and was not 
wanted by the Yankees (the Cardinals had to offer him back); he was in camp as a
minor league signee with an invite. A strong start at Memphis could get him a shot
later in the season pending an MLB injury.

The catchers continue to be sent down as more pitchers are going down.

Koperniak is a solid prospect, but more in line with a 4th/5th outfielder type at
the MLB level. He could get a [Richie Palacios](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/palacri01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br)
type look late in the season, if there is an injury or the team is playing that 
badly.

The 3 remaining non-roster players are infielders [Cesar Prieto](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=prieto000ces&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-14_br)
and [Thomas Saggese](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=sagges000tho&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-14_br),
and outfielder [Victor Scott](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=scott-003vic&utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-14_br)
II. I still think it’s a long shot that any of the 3 break camp with the Cardinals;
they remind me of [Masyn Winn](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/winnma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.nyrdcast.com&utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br)
last spring – guys who are putting on a good show and getting their names out there,
but could be late season call ups when they get some Triple A time under their belts.

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