Cardinals Off-Season Signing to Have Season Ending Surgery

 

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Drew VerHagen is headed for season-ending right-hip surgery. 

RHP Drew VerHagen is headed for hip surgery, will end his season, official says. He will have it shortly. #stlcards

— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) August 4, 2022

It's a tough blow for VerHagen, who signed a two-year, $5.5 million free agent contract with St. Louis this past March. He injured his hip soon after and never quite seemed to make a full recovery. 

The thirty-one-year-old last pitched on July 13, and finishes his season with an ugly ERA of 6.65, 1.89 WHIP and 18 strikeouts in 21 innings. He held a 3-1 record on the season. 

Drew VerHagen is out for the season (right hip surgery). Oli Marmol: "He has the ability to be a really good pitcher for us. ... He never felt right all year. He was battling that hip."
Also, Tyler O'Neill will start in Game 2 tonight.

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The Cardinals still believe in him as a pitcher and they hope that they can put his career 5.26 ERA behind him, and work on making him an effective pitcher, once healthy, next year. 

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