The Cardinals are promoting Tyler O’Neill - A Hunt and Peck

Cool.

By lil_scooter93 Apr 18, 2018, 1:00pm EDT

MLB: Spring Training-Miami Marlins at St. Louis Cardinals

A little has been written about the Cardinals decision to carry eight relievers, particularly when it seems as though the same relievers get used every other game (read: I complained about this a lot because it makes no sense, NO SENSE). The rumor is, with the promotion of Tyler O’Neil...

BREAKING: Cardinals planning to promote No.4 prospect Tyler O'Neill on Thursday, according to a source. #STLCards https://t.co/PKYf8NqcP4
— Joe Trezza (@JoeTrezz) April 18, 2018

the Cardinals will send down a reliever:

The Cardinals have not decided on a corresponding move yet, per source, but O'Neill's promotion is likely to come at the expense of a reliever. That will give Mike Matheny five bench players for the first time this season. #STLCards
— Joe Trezza (@JoeTrezz) April 18, 2018

Which is cool because it appears there will be no end to the pointless double-switching, so maybe this...

Tommy Pham felt his groin tighten up in the ninth inning, but the Cardinals had nobody to replace him after using all their reserves.

Pham said he probably would have left the game, but also that he's healthy enough to play tomorrow.
— Joe Trezza (@JoeTrezz) April 18, 2018

will not happen again.

But, anyway, some info on Mr. O’Neill.

He is the Cardinals #4 prospect in their system
He is an outfielder
He is Canadian
The Cardinals acquired O’Neill from the Mariners for Marco Gonazales
At Memphis he has a slash line of .388/.385/.837 in fifty-two plate appearances
His Memphis wRC+ is 192 with .449 ISO
Yes, that batting average is higher than his OBP. He has nineteen hits (with six being home runs), two sacrifice flies and, wait for it... one walk
His BABIP is a hearty .371 - he has generally been a high BABIP hitter, but not that high, nope
Terry O’Neill is Tyler’s father - he was named Mr. Canada in 1975, which is a title given to Canada’s best body builder
Terry looks like this: