The Cardinals have signed left-handed pitcher Rob Kaminsky to a minor league contract for the 2025 season, the staff introduced. This would be the 30-year-old’s third stint with the group and his twelfth skilled marketing campaign.
Kaminsky first signed with St. Louis in 2013 because the twenty eighth total choose within the draft. Regardless of his younger age – he made his professional debut at 18 – the southpaw impressed straight away. Over his first three years within the Cardinals system, he threw 217 1/3 innings between Rookie ball and Excessive-A, pitching to a 2.15 ERA and a couple of.90 FIP.
St. Louis traded Kaminsky to Cleveland forward of the 2015 commerce deadline, in alternate for Brandon Moss. It was after the commerce that Kaminsky started to battle, and questions on his means to stay within the rotation started to come up. Following a 2017 season virtually fully misplaced to damage, he pitched solely out of the bullpen in 2018 and ’19, compiling a 3.31 ERA and 4.01 FIP in 84 1/3 innings pitched. Whereas his numbers had been strong (if unspectacular), he had largely fallen off of high prospects lists by that point. He elected minor league free company after the 2019 season.
Kaminsky re-joined the Cardinals on a minor league pact that winter and made his MLB debut the next summer time. He pitched 4 2/3 innings in 2020, putting out three and strolling two. He gave up three runs, though just one was earned. Regardless of his serviceable outcomes, the Cardinals DFA’d him after his fifth look in September. He has not returned the to main leagues since.
From 2021-24, Kaminsky bounced from the Phillies to the Mariners to the Staten Island FerryHawks of the Atlantic League and again to the Mariners. He handled varied damage points in that point and struggled to make a lot of an impression when he did take the mound. That being stated, it’s value noting that he made eight begins at Triple-A Tacoma in 2024. It was the primary time he had made greater than two begins in a season since 2016. Kaminsky is extremely unlikely to make the Opening Day roster, however he’ll provide the Cardinals some left-handed depth for the bullpen, and presumably the rotation, too. Maybe a return to his former membership will assist him get again on monitor as he strives to return to the majors in 2025.
