The expected became official Wednesday as longtime Cardinals starter and 200-game winner Adam Wainwright’s retirement appeared as a transaction on Major League Baseball’s log.
He only has to wait three years now for the inevitable: a red, tailored sports coat that comes with election to the team’s Hall of Fame.
Wainwright, 42, spent at least part of 19 seasons in the majors with the Cardinals, and all 411 starts and 478 major league appearances came with the St. Louis ball club. He announced his plans to retire after the 2023 season when he signed a one-year extension after going 11-12 with a 3.71 ERA for the playoff-bound 2022 Cardinals. Injuries and inconsistencies interrupted and detoured his farewell before, in his final two starts, he got two wins to reach 200 in his career.
He is the third pitcher to reach that milestone with the Cardinals, and he and Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson are the only two with that many who only pitched for the Cardinals.
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Wainwright retires with a 200-128 record to go with a 3.53 ERA and 2,202 strikeouts. In many of the team’s significant career pitching records, Wainwright ranks only behind Gibson. As a rookie, Wainwright became the team’s October closer and clinched the National League pennant with a bases-loaded strikeout of the New York Mets’ Carlos Beltran in Game 7 of the NLCS. He cinched that year’s World Series championship — the 10th in club history — with three consecutive sliders to end Game 5 against Detroit.
A starter in the majors since 2007, Wainwright had four top-three finishes for the NL Cy Young Award. He won two Gold Glove Awards, a Silver Slugger Award and the Roberto Clemente Award for his humanitarian work, charity initiatives and leadership. A three-time All-Star, Wainwright started the Midsummer Classic for the NL in 2014 at Target Field in Minnesota.
Wainwright will be eligible for the fan vote to the Cardinals Hall of Fame following the 2026 season. He will appear on the ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame ahead of the 2029 election, one year after teammates Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina are eligible for the vote into Cooperstown.
Acquired from Atlanta in 2003, the Georgia native and former Braves first-round pick was on a Cardinals major league roster continuously since 2005, with only a brief few days as a free agent until resigning.
The transaction, finalized by paperwork Wainwright signs to complete his retirement, is the formal removal of Wainwright from the 40-man roster.
Infielder claimed from Oakland
The Cardinals quickly filled the opening on their major league roster by claiming infielder Buddy Kennedy from Oakland off waivers. Kennedy, 25, played 10 games this past season for the NL champion Arizona Diamondbacks before being removed from their roster and picked up by the Athletics. A graduate of the same high school as Mike Trout, Kennedy is a versatile fielder who has hit .206 with a .299 slugging percentage in 40 big league games and limited at-bats.
At Class AAA this season, he hit .308 with a .455 slugging percentage.
Kennedy adds roster depth at infield positions ahead of a winter when the Cardinals, as they shop for starting pitchers, are certain to draw interest in their young infielders such as Nolan Gorman, Brendan Donovan, Tommy Edman and prospect Thomas Saggese.
Padres considering Shildt for manager
Former Cardinals manager Mike Shildt, who has spent the past two seasons with the Padres, is one of the leading internal candidates to fill San Diego’s suddenly open manager position. San Diego plans to formally interview Shildt to be its next manager, according to sources, and the San Diego Union-Tribune reported his interview began Wednesday.
Shildt joined the Padres as an adviser in player development, and he spent time this season as a fill-in at third-base coach and an occasional coach in the big league dugout.
San Diego’s manager position is open after San Francisco received permission from the Padres to interview Bob Melvin and hired him within hours. Shildt, 55, won the NL’s Manager of the Year award in 2019, his first of three full seasons at the helm for the Cardinals. The Cardinals reached the playoffs in all three of those seasons, from 2019 through 2021.
Buck a finalist for Hall’s Frick award
St. Louis’ Joe Buck is one of 10 finalists for the 2024 Ford C. Frick Award, which the highest honor for a broadcaster given by the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Sometimes filling in for his father Jack Buck, Joe broadcasted Cardinals games for 17 years. While a lead announcer for FOX Sports, Buck called 24 World Series and 21 All-Star Games, not to mention his work calling marquee NFL games, as he does now for ESPN.
Jack Buck received the Frick award in 1987.
The ballot was announced by the Hall on Wednesday, and a winner will be announced Dec. 6 at the winter meetings in Nashville, Tennessee.
Daniel Guerrero of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report
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