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Cardinals To Shift Willson Contreras Off Catcher May 6th, 2023 at 1:30pm CST • By Simon Hampton On the face of it, the Cardinals’ decision to call up minor league catcher Tres Barrera didn’t seem like the sort of deal to make headlines around baseball, but the ramifications of it are significant. It’s not so much the call up of Barrera, but the fact his arrival means St Louis will shift Willson Contreras off catcher for the “next couple of weeks”, as Katie Woo of The Athletic reports, with Andrew Knizner to take over as the primary backstop. It’s a huge move to shift your star off-season recruit off his primary position just a month into his first season, but the Cards clearly feel this is the best move to help them turn around their 10-23 start to the season. Contreras, signed to a five-year, $87.5MM deal in the winter, will now serve as a DH/outfielder for the team, further muddying an already crowded outfield picture in St Louis At the plate, Contreras has been his usual self, slashing .280/.361/.421 with a pair of home runs, good for a wRC+ of 119. That’s a slight drop on his numbers from last year but pretty much in line with his career numbers. His offensive work was never likely to be the source of any concern though, with the focus here surely on his work behind the plate. Catchers are a challenging position to assess statistically, but there’s generally been some question marks over Contreras’ work behind the plate.

Cardinals are a s*** show atm Not used to seeing that

Orioles are 22-10 Holy f***. That's the second best record in all of baseball.

Ah Got you And Friggin right That one season bought him a mega deal he'll never live up to

Walk year? He's singed for big $.

6 year / $162,000,000 At least Cole has stayed healthy on his insane contract

Let us win the game Ty

Matt Harvey announced his retirement today

Notjibf to feel good about in any way Horrible horrible series

Oh no

Big K to end it

Red Sox offense is actually pretty legit

fml

Yet 0 runs Sigh

Slapia

I want to keep him too. He could lead the majors in hits for a decade. The hit tool is nuts. He works hard. And he could eventually move to 2B

Dammit Vladdy robbed a bit on a well hit ball

My God Bo's hands and bat speed are incredible

Gausman has been so ridiculously good

Sometimes you need your stopper to stop a losing skid Gausman is just the guy to do this f*** yes. Bring it on.

Ugly ass GDT to lead us to a beautiful win TY Laika

Cardinals have lost the first game of every single series they've played this year

Only TOR and HOU have won series against them

Gave up two HR in the first Has settled down since

6:10 ET today? What a stupid game time. Why not earlier like every other game today??