Cardinals star Jordan Walker sustains bizarre injury during spring training game

A genu wounded volition support St. Louis Cardinals close fielder Jordan Walker disconnected the shot diamond for the adjacent respective days. 

The 22-year-old appeared to endure the wounded aft helium stepped connected a sprinkler caput arsenic helium chased a alert shot during a outpouring grooming crippled earlier this week. The Cardinals yet defeated the Washington Nationals successful Tuesday's accumulation successful Palm Beach, Florida.

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Mar 4, 2025; West Palm Beach, Florida, USA; St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker (18) looks connected aft being struck retired against the Washington Nationals during the archetypal inning astatine CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches. (Rich Storry-Imagn Images)

An MRI aboriginal confirmed that Walker avoided immoderate structural harm to his knee. However, determination were immoderate signs of irritation.

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Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said the squad would instrumentality a cautious attack to Walker's genu implicit the adjacent week.

"It is what it is," Marmol told reporters connected Wednesday. "We'll fto it calm down for a week and past we'll ramp that babe backmost up, and we'll inactive person clip to spot him successful plentifulness of [spring training] games."

Feb 24, 2025; Jupiter, Florida, USA; Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker (18) hits a azygous against the New York Mets during the 2nd inning astatine Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium. (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)

Walker is expected to beryllium acceptable for Opening Day adjacent month. Walker made immoderate changes to his plaything this offseason and is projected to commencement successful close tract erstwhile the regular play begins.

Walker has 21 vocation location runs and 71 RBIs implicit 168 games. The right-handed batter besides has a .255 vocation batting average.

Mar 4, 2025; West Palm Beach, Florida, USA; St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker (18) reacts to a evident genu wounded against the Washington Nationals during the 4th inning astatine CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches. (Rich Storry-Imagn Images)

The Cardinals finished past play with an 83–79 record, but did not beforehand to the playoffs.

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Marmol oversaw a 12-game betterment from the 2023 season. St. Louis has not qualified for the MLB postseason since the franchise won the 2022 NL Central part title.

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