The Cardinals announced Monday that they’ve designated right-hander Brandon Dickson for assignment in order to open a spot on the roster for lefty Andrew Miller, who has been reinstated from the 10-day injured list.
It was a brief big league return for Dickson, who was selected to the Cardinals’ roster last week and made his first Major League appearance since 2012. The Cardinals are the only Major League organization Dickson has ever known, but he was away from the club for nearly a decade, as he spent the 2013-20 seasons pitching for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. He also won a Silver Medal pitching for Team USA in the Olympics earlier this summer.
Dickson, 36, pitched a total of two innings with the Cards in his return effort and has only 16 2/3 Major League innings to his name. He has a solid 3.72 ERA in parts of four career seasons in Triple-A and was a rock-solid arm in Japan, pitching to a combined 3.32 earned run average in just shy of 900 innings with the Buffaloes, for whom he started 94 games and also made 121 relief appearances. The Cardinals can now either place Dickson on outright waivers or release him within the next few days.
Inside Out
Cruel
Daryl Pauley
I don’t care. Except maybe he could have put that fire out on Sunday, nobody couldn’t.
DonOsbourne
He looked terrible last Friday night. But yes, the back end of our bullpen is imploding in general. Don’t worry though, Andrew Miller is coming back!
kevincwilson
Lol!
CrikesAlready
¡Padres! ¡Padres! ¡Padres!
As long as he could go 4 1/3 innings per start every five days and keep it under five runs, he’s gold!
dmarcus15
That was quick
timyanks
you know the old saying, if it’s been seven years, you’re a virgin again. he had two cups of coffee, almost a decade apart.
jobusrum9
Son of a dick