{"id":154108,"date":"2025-07-05T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/154108\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T16:39:10","slug":"former-cardinals-2-23-era-pitcher-signs-with-diamondbacks-as-injuries-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/154108\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cardinals 2.23 ERA pitcher signs with Diamondbacks as injuries mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have utilized multiple players over the past few years, some of whom may have been forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is Jake Woodford, a right-handed reliever, who threw the baseball at a decent level for parts of his career in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>During the 2022 campaign, the best season of his big league career, the 28-year-old posted a 2.23 ERA in 48.1 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, unfortunately, things haven&#8217;t been too kind for him. He now owns a career 4.91 ERA after posting a 7.97 ERA with the Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates last season, and a 9.00 ERA with the Arizona Diamondbacks this season.<\/p>\n<p>But his time with the Diamondbacks has been short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent report from the Arizona Republic, Woodford recently signed a deal with the Diamondbacks and made his debut with the team on July 2.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s allowed two earned runs in 2.0 innings, which is why his ERA sits at 9.00.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DBacks to sign Jake Woodford,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/cardinals\/st-louis-cardinals-news\/cardinals-outfielder-quietly-landed-with-nl-west-rival-pat3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Piecoro and Romero said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Piecoro and Romero said<\/a>. &#8220;The Diamondbacks are signing right-hander Jake Woodford to a major league deal, a source said, a move that helps shore up the club\u2019s pitching depth after an avalanche of injuries in the big leagues and in Triple-A Reno. To make room for Woodford on the roster, the club will option right-hander Juan Morillo to Reno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/st-louis-cardinals\/news\/cardinals-play-supporting-role-new-york-yankees-trade-deadline-pickup\/caf468bdc61d01ae147c6e96\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cardinals to play supporting role in New York Yankees trade deadline pickup?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cardinals to play supporting role in New York Yankees trade deadline pickup?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woodford will have plenty to figure out over the next few weeks to months if he wants to stay in the show.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that the Diamondbacks could be using him now because of all the injuries they&#8217;ve faced to their entire roster.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an unfortunate situation for Arizona, but one that Woodford can&#8217;t worry about too much.<\/p>\n<p>He has another opportunity outside of St. Louis, and he needs to take advantage of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Cardinals have utilized multiple players over the past few years, some of whom may have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[146,22,5,160,49,2600,18680,17193,4,62,64,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-154108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox","13":"tag-era","14":"tag-jake-woodford","15":"tag-juan-morillo","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-new-york-yankees","18":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","19":"tag-st-louis","20":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","21":"tag-stlouis","22":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114801617495310895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}