{"id":633206,"date":"2026-03-20T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/633206\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:34:16","slug":"what-should-the-st-louis-cardinals-do-with-jordan-walker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/633206\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should the St. Louis Cardinals Do with Jordan Walker?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordan Walker is a riddle wrapped up in enigma hidden inside of a 3-lock box for the St. Louis Cardinals. Since his major league debut in 2023, Walker has seen the optimism about his abilities fade into pessimism about whether he really can be fixed.<\/p>\n

I asked the question of what you would do if you were President of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom regarding Jordan Walker\u2019s future. The answers varied from letting him be the starting right fielder for the Cardinals on Opening Day because the team doesn\u2019t have a better option, send him to the low minor leagues and make him earn his promotions back to the big club or designate him for assignment.<\/p>\n

\"Doc<\/a>\"Viva<\/p>\n

What should the Cardinals do with Jordan Walker? <\/p>\n

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Considering the downward trend, would you have Jordan start the season in Triple A, try to trade him, DFA him or stick with him and let him start the season in St. Louis?<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis has been one that\u2026keeps us up at night. We have to figure it out. When I say I\u2019m committed to it, I need to think of a stronger word to make sure that this dude figures it out\u2026with us\u2026because there\u2019s a real skill set there, but I do feel like we missed some time in getting to where we\u2019re at now. I wished we would have gotten to this point sooner. What I mean by that where there\u2019s real vulnerability of what has actually happened\u2026how do we feel\u2026how are we gonna get on the other side of this to create real change\u2026not just say we\u2019re working on something, (but) six months later it looks very similar. I feel like we\u2019re finally at a point where that\u2019s happening. It could be a month before we feel good about it\u2026it could be three months before we feel good about it\u2026I may feel good about it in 3 hours\u2026.I don\u2019t know. I like where we\u2019re at with what\u2019s taking place. There\u2019s a real responsibility on both ends here\u2026on mine, on Brownie and that whole hitting department\u2026to unlock what he\u2019s capable of\u2026and there\u2019s real responsibility on (Jordan\u2019s) end, too\u2026of carrying the work that he\u2019s doing into the game. We\u2019re doing everything possible for that to be the case\u2026but this is one that has not gone well and we need it to go well. All hands on deck for this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is just my speculation because Oli didn\u2019t say it outright, but I could sense that the time for Jordan Walker to show real progress is ticking down quickly. It also felt like there is frustration from the Cardinals management that Jordan didn\u2019t get to the point where he\u2019s accepting coaching direction quicker. When he emphasized that he hopes that Jordan Walker figures out his problems \u201cwith us\u201d, I got the feeling that Walker not being \u201cwith us\u201d might be a possibility. Everyone realizes his immense talent and potential high ceiling, but I\u2019ve heard it said that one skill he has never really displayed is a true command of the strike zone. Yes, that can be taught, but there also needs to be something built into the player\u2019s instincts about pitch recognition as part of his approach. I\u2019m not the only one questioning if that is something that Jordan Walker can acquire.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker still has one more option left and I really hope the team makes use of it and has him start the season at Triple A Memphis. Why not start Nelson Vel\u00e1zquez who has had an excellent Spring or Nathan Church? I don\u2019t want to witness Jordan Walker trying to figure this out in front of a Busch Stadium crowd again because I believe the patience of the fanbase is spent. No matter if the previous St. Louis Cardinals management rushed him through the minor league system too quickly or not, the time for a solution is now. The runway for Jordan Walker is ending soon. Would be a shame for such a talented player to not see his potential realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Walker is a riddle wrapped up in enigma hidden inside of a 3-lock box for the St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,673,67,65076,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-633206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","13":"tag-st-louis-cardinals-analysis","14":"tag-stlouis","15":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633206","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=633206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}