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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
They need to send Reyes back to Memphis to build up his service tim...I mean, arm strength.
He needs 65 days in the minors for the Cardinals to get back one of the years of service time they torched with 2 years of reeruned handling of him. It still burns me to no end that Mozeliak didn't just take him of the 60 day, option him to Memphis and let him pitch there. By 'saving' a 40 man spot to protect someone they didn't need anyway, they kept him on the 25 man roster while he rehabbed and then when he got injured he burned yet ANOTHER season of MLB service time.
He's ripped through 2+ years of cheap service time while rehabbing injuries that he shouldn't have even been on the damn MLB roster for. At least option his ass back down and get one of those back by only using about 60% of a season this year. Now you still have 4 years of control when the season is done. It's what they should've done last season coming off his previous injury to ensure they still had 5 at the beginning of this year and then they could've used him to their heart's content.
But Mozeliak is functionally reeruned so this won't happen.
Reyes is headed right down the Alan Benes path of being ground to hamburger and/or otherwise completely wasted.
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Heard this point on a podcast when he got injured last year. Forget which podcast but they said the Cardinals couldnt do what you are talking about to stop service time because the contract Reyes signed. That many of the elite players have similiar contracts, injury cant stop the service time from ticking.
No idea if true or not, it was a podcast.