Alex Reyes made his major league debut and it was terribly exciting - A Hunt and Peck

Everyone has been so excited to see Alex Reyes and why shouldn't they be? The twenty-one year old throws tripe digits, has a buckler of a curve, and has been striking out everyone down in AAA. With the big league bullpen floundering, it appeared to be a matter of when Reyes would make his debut rather than if and what would he do when he made it. Tuesday night he made his debut against the Reds and we all found out rather quickly and I am going to just stop writing about it and show you because ahhhhhh:

Dang.

Projecting Cardinals Call-Up Alex Reyes | FanGraphs Baseball

Reyes dazzles, but Cardinals' flaws come to the surface | St. Louis Cardinals | stltoday.com

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what the cardinals are up to...

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• Projecting Cardinals Call-Up Alex Reyes | FanGraphs Baseball
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• Derrick Goold, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | ESPN
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• Going Forward, the Cardinals Should Consider a Six-Man Rotation | 101Sports.com
• Cards pitching atrocious in 7-4 loss to Reds | Viva El Birdos

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• A Cincinnati Reds community | Red Reporter

the nl central

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