Cardinals Fans Will Hate Latest Report Regarding Reunion With Premier Pitcher

St. Louis may not bring back a frontline starter

The St. Louis Cardinals made a splash this offseason when they added right-hander Sonny Gray alongside a few ancillary pieces but did not do much to improve on paper from a season ago.

While unlikely, St. Louis would benefit from adding another starter following a last-place finish in the National League Central.

Jordan Montgomery is miraculously still available this late in the offseason. Unfortunately, there's a good chance he won't be headed back to St. Louis.

"Boras told reporters in Arizona on Monday that four new teams had contacted him about the free-agent pitchers in the past week," St. Louis Post Dispatch's Derrick Goold wrote on Monday referring to Montgomery and Blake Snell. "As of Monday afternoon, the Cardinals had not been a team that recently reached out to Boras about the starters, sources described."

The Cardinals to this point, appear to be uninvolved in the race for either premier hurler with spring training underway and St. Louis seemingly at or close to the top of its budget.

In an offseason where ownership hasn't spent much, this could have been the perfect time to lock down a frontline starter for years to come alongside Gray. 

Once news broke on Gray's hamstring injury it appeared that St. Louis might be forced to look into bringing back Montgomery, but it now appears to be unlikely.

A reunion with Montgomery would still come with a hefty price tag, and ownership has clearly shied away from spending this offseason.

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