Cardinals sign 28-year-old Red Sox hurler
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The St. Louis Cardinals have received calls about first baseman Willson Contreras from both the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets. Contreras hopes to remain in S
May, who made 23 starts in 2025 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox, should slot in at the top of the Cardinals’ rotation.
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Dustin May could find his form again with the Cardinals
Heading into 2026, the St. Louis Cardinals will seemingly take a further step back, as they did in 2025, when they finished fourth in the National League Central with a 78-84 record.
Rumors are claiming that the St. Louis Cardinals are likely to trade star third baseman Nolan Arenado during the offseason.
The Cardinals and right-hander Dustin May have agreed to a one-year contract, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand on Saturday. The club has not confirmed the deal. Still just 28 years old, May entered free agency as one of the youngest and most intriguing players on the market.
Chaim Bloom, who has recently taken over as the Cardinals' front office leader, took Gerritt Whitlock in the 2020 Rule-5 Draft when he was running the Boston Red Sox. Whitlock became a valuable contributor to the 2021 Red Sox, who advanced to the ALCS, and he's now one of the better relievers in the American League.
Tasked with reconstructing both the minor league system and the major league roster of the St. Louis Cardinals, the version of Bloom free to focus solely on cold roster calculus—shifting players around like digits on a spreadsheet—would be able to move with ruthless precision and absolute efficiency.
While a role isn't locked down right now, Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on Tuesday there remains "mutual interest" in sorting out a role for 2026.
A restructuring of the way FanDuel Sports Network conducts its pregame and postgame shows across most of its system nationally is driving the shakeup.
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