Locked On Cardinals - Daily Podcast On The St. Louis Cardinals - BOOM or BUST: Cardinals LAND Dustin May—Will This POWER Arm Finally BREAK OUT in St. Louis?

Starting point is 00:00:00 The St. Louis Cardinals signed their first major free agent of the offseason in pitcher Dustin May, why there's an argument to be both optimistic and pessimistic about it. You are locked on Cardinals. Your daily St. Louis Cardinals podcast, part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Hey there, Carlis fans. I'm J.D. Havert, a former national radio sports anchor born and raised in St. Louis in a lifetime Cardinals fan. And welcome to another episode of Locked on Cardinals, part of the lockdown podcast network. Now the number one sports podcast network. Thank you to our everydayers for being here with us.

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Starting point is 00:01:05 but there is a third that's still kind of hanging out there. So we'll get to the info there. A former Cardinal and ALCS MVP is signing with another National League team. But we do begin today's show with the news that broke on Saturday afternoon that the Cardinals, pending a physical, are in agreement on a one-year deal with free agent, right-handed pitcher Dustin May with a mutual option for 2027. Now, when this news broke, I was out. I was out on the town at my first ever Santa Con event.

Starting point is 00:01:40 So thank you to the copious amounts of sugary treats and adult beverages because I had consumed a little bit that day and was pretty darn fired up about the news when Dustin May got fired. And so much that in my Santa outfit, in the snow, I went out and made a quick video to share the news. with everybody. So if you aren't following me on the social media, as you should do that because you can see me looking like a moron in a Santa Claus outfit. But it was fun and I was happy. First off, as a fan, just a fan in general, it was nice to see the Cardinals do something, right? Something to add to the team other than the minor transactions that we've had since the sunny gray trade. But it was also a name that was at the top of my, this might be cool. list of things to do this off season. There are plenty of reasons to like and dislike this move. Okay. I am not so naive where I'm like, it's going to work. It's perfect. It's the greatest idea ever. No, I'm not here to tell you that. You can say that there are good and bad sides to every thing that happens, every transaction in the sports universe, no matter what sport it is. Nothing is 100% for certain. Bang, home run hit. Every single time you make.

Starting point is 00:03:00 a transaction. There's always going to be some reason why it's not going to work. But I believe, personally, that the good outweighs the bad in this particular situation for the St. Louis Cardinals. Now, Dustin May signing with somebody else may not fit as well. I thought it fit well with the Cardinals and what they're trying to do. And since it's the holiday season and because I'm still in kind of my Santa mode, we're going to start with the nice list and then we'll get to the naughty side of the it's why maybe this isn't such a great idea for the Cardinals. But we're going to start with the nice stuff first. So number one reason to like this signing, in my opinion, is the tremendous upside that

Starting point is 00:03:41 comes with Dustin May. Was deemed one of the Dodgers best prospects not too long ago. All right. We're talking about, I know, this is 2025 now, 2019, 2020, 2021 was like when he was coming up. So it's been a little bit, but it's not that long ago. We're not talking a decade. but injuries have been the main reason why he's never reached the lofty expectations that Scouts once had for him.

Starting point is 00:04:06 The Dodgers have another guy that I would love to see the Cardinals kick the tires on as well. And that's Bobby Miller, who has also never lived up to the billing he once had due to injuries and just, you know, just hasn't been working out for him. So that's somebody else I would have interest in if the Dodgers decide, hey, we don't need to look at him anymore. Sit them all down to St. Louis. Well, we'll take a look at these guys. But anyway, coming up in 2019 and 2020, Sky was the limit for May,

Starting point is 00:04:33 who was a very lean 6 foot 6, was pumping, what, 98 on the sinker and the fastball to go along with his sweeper and his cutter. When he was first coming up, his stuff was dancing all over the place. And it looked so effortless coming out of his hand. The ball would explode off his fingertips and just sizzle up to the plate. Spin rates were phenomenal. Scouting grades love things. about him. He had a 65, 60-60 scouting grade. Remember, that's between 20 and 80. That's the

Starting point is 00:05:03 scouting grade that they give at MOVU pipeline. So 65, 60-60 on the fastball curve and cutters. They love that. He was the 69th ranked prospect in baseball in 2019. Nice. And jumped up to number 23 in 2020. Movement on a sweeper is something that has always impressed me. I have loved it since he's come up. Sinkers got crazy movement as well. They're both still at elite levels and are his two best pitches that he throws more times than not, 73% of the time last year, those were the two pitches that he was going with. The offers, the four seamers still. He's got the cutter. He's got a change up as well. He doesn't throw it all that often, but he's got one. Jeff Passon said that May drew widespread interest from teams. Great word here, by the way, tantalized by his ceiling.

Starting point is 00:05:50 And that's kind of been the story with Dustin May, tantalizing stuff. The injury concerns are real. but last year, remember, we're sticking with the positives right now. Last year, he threw a career high 132 innings over seven seasons. Look at the numbers, 3.86 CRA, 46.6% ground ball rate. You like those numbers. And if we look at life before last season, before he got to Boston and before, obviously the stuff with the Dodgers last year, but things went pretty bad when he got to Boston. But before last season, in his career, and I know, again, injuries, 12 and 9, though, 3.10 ERA,

Starting point is 00:06:32 an ERA plus ERA plus of 138, the width at 1.049. You love that. Over 46 games and 34 starts. So those are the reasons why when, you know, people bring up Dustin May, he's one of, those are some of the reasons why. Hey, look at the, look at the stuff. Look at the metrics. There's a ton to like about him.

Starting point is 00:06:56 But obviously the injuries are a problem. Another thing that's really good about this. Number two, in my opinion, is that he's still just 28, but he's also 28. He's been a part of or around three World Series championship teams with the Dodgers, the first one in 2020. And yeah, COVID year, I get it. Not everybody's counting everything that goes on in the COVID year.

Starting point is 00:07:19 Technically it counts. And that season, May pitched in seven games in the postseason, made three starts, struck out 13 and 10. two-thirds innings. He was an important part of how they got to where they were. It was hurt in 2024, but on the Dodgers. So he was around people when they won. And then last year was on the team for 19 games, 18 starts before getting traded to Boston. He'll get a ring because of that too. He's not the prototypical veteran that I thought the cardals were going to be looking for. Not what I was really imagining. I thought somebody in their early

Starting point is 00:07:52 30s, a little more gray on him. It's who I. thought they would go after, but he's got the postseason experience. Has been in the league now for six years, so it's not like he's some rookie. I know it's not a huge selling point, but I'm throwing it out there. It's positive. He's got some experience, and hopefully he's learned some things along the way from his time in LA and then with Boston last year. Number three, not a long-term commitment.

Starting point is 00:08:20 The Cardinals didn't just sign this guy to like a five-year deal where they're locked in with somebody who's had issues for a very long time. The Cardinals aren't trying to sign guys more than one or two years at this point. They're just not. Labor issues coming up with Major League Baseball. Why do I need to sign people past this time? Because I don't know how things are going to be working when we get around to that. So, and when you got somebody with the injury history of Dustin May, going beyond one year

Starting point is 00:08:49 would be extremely risky. That's why you get the one year, you get the mutual option. that's nice. Both sides are happy. Cool. It's a one-year deal. We don't know the financials just yet. Haven't seen them pop up.

Starting point is 00:09:01 But one-year deal, no strings attached. Nobody's on the hook for anything else past one year. If things go well for both parties and he wants to resign in St. Louis and the Cardinals are enjoyed him, great. We got the mutual option. We get another year. If things go fine, but they want to flip him at the trade deadline or sooner to help with this rebuild, that's an option that is going to be there as well. And if things go bad and he doesn't hold up, another injury occurs, or he just playing doesn't pitch well and things just aren't working out.

Starting point is 00:09:34 It's over and done with after one season. And it's a season that the Cardinals aren't expected to compete for all that much. Yeah, we're going to put in an effort. Yeah, we're excited about some of the young talent that we got. But in the grand scheme of things, most people are going to pick the Cardinals to probably finish. in fourth place in the division, maybe even a fifth. Some people might even pick the pirates because they're pitching staff and whatever moves they end up making.

Starting point is 00:10:01 It's possible. They could be picked to be in the last place because there's just a lot of unknowns going on with the Cardinals going into next year. And it's not like in 2024 when they clearly wanted to compete still. You know, they signed Sunny Gray, which was a solid signing, but also signed. Remember it was Kyle Gibson and Lance Lynn, who they signed first before the Sunny Great Deal,

Starting point is 00:10:23 actually came down. And we were like, what? What's happening? Both of them were at the end of their careers. We didn't think it was going to go anywhere. It didn't go anywhere, you know? And as of now, this isn't going to be an environment with the pressures of L.A. or Boston on Dustin May.

Starting point is 00:10:45 Hopefully that works in his advantage just a little bit as well. But like I said, I don't want to pretend that this is some slam dunk signing without any issues whatsoever. There are plenty of issues. And as much as I can sit here and highlight the good things to make everybody feel great about it and making it all sunshine and rainbows out there for us with the signing, there is plenty of stuff to argue on the other side of things of why this is a stupid idea. Why this won't work. Why it's a waste of time and a waste of resources. We'll get into those coming up next on Locked on Cardinals. NFL Sundays move fast, one big play. and suddenly everything feels different.

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Starting point is 00:13:55 the bell every five days, you are of little use to your team and to your rotation. And that's been the biggest issue for Dustin May. A lot of injuries. A lot of injuries. And most of them have to do with this pitching arm. But not all of them. In 2021, Tommy John's surgery, 2023, right forearm strain. That leads to flexor tendon surgery. 2024, the freak life-threatening injury to his esophagus when a piece of salad got stuck in his throat, tore his esophagus,

Starting point is 00:14:26 required emergency surgery. Could have died. Could have died from this. Then last year it was right elbow neuritis in September. That shut them down prematurely, unable to pitch in the postseason with Boston, who ends up losing to the Yankees. Everything before in 2024. The two elbow surgeries, that's unfortunate.

Starting point is 00:14:48 Life is a major league pitcher, right? A lot of torque going on there. Like you can see, if you're watching on YouTube right now, you can see the arm angle that he throws from from the side there. like it happens. It happens with pitchers. But the 2024, the esophagus tear, holy crap, right? And we talked about it a bit when I first started mentioning Dustin May as a guy that I personally wanted to target this offseason and still can't imagine how freaking scary that had to be. like getting right to just sitting there eating a salad with your wife and then choking

Starting point is 00:15:30 pain, emergency surgery on your throat. Yikes. The good news is he's okay. It's been reported that it brought new perspective and appreciation for things and for his life, which is always a good way to react to life-changing experiences, realize that you are mortal, and maybe we shouldn't take for granted all the nice things that we have. So I've heard some interviews with him talking about it, and that certainly seems to be the mindset that he took from it. But the injury itself to his throat had a lasting impression and an impact on how poorly things went for him in 2025 as well. And that's the number two thing. Last season was not a good season for Dustin May, despite setting a new career high in innings pitched, which I brought up. That was a positive. But he didn't pitch very well,

Starting point is 00:16:21 you know? It's kind of like with Michaelis. Everybody, you know, how we tease. We're like, you do, Michaelis, man, 32 starts, 33 starts every year. He's always going to be there for you. Awesome. But it doesn't do me any good when he's there every day and gets beat up and isn't very good and gets shelved. Like, so I don't want that every fifth day. Last year, Dustin May was 7 and 11 with a 4.9 ERA, ERA plus, a career low 84. The whip, a career high, 1.421, a career hits per nine, career high hits per nine, at 9.0, the walks per nine, we're at 3.8, that's not good. Just not great numbers all around. So there are reasons to be hesitant about this. So why would you want a guy who appears to be getting worse? Well, after the surgery on the throat, my guy lost 40 pounds,

Starting point is 00:17:12 40 pounds. And when you can't eat and you can't work out normally, you just kind of lay in there and you just wither away. I had Mono back in high school. My senior year of high school too sucked. Had Mono coming out of Christmas break. And I was on the shelf for a couple of weeks. And I lost almost 20 pounds in a couple weeks.

Starting point is 00:17:37 So to an extent, I kind of get what he went through to an extent. Not exactly like it. I'm not trying to totally compare myself to it, but I kind of understand it. And to get yourself back to normal after something like that happens, it's not easy. And he's not really a bulky guy to begin with. 6-6-180 is what he was listed at. I know he's been heavier than that in the past, but that's what he was listed at last year. And I'm sure not only did it affect his weight, it affected his energy,

Starting point is 00:18:12 And so you saw a dip in velocity last year as well. Jeff Passon was talking about this. He brought up while May's sinker velocity dip from a peak of 98 to 94.5, the 6 foot 6 May, was trying to regain those 40 pounds he lost in the first three weeks after surgery. He bulked up from 185 to around 205 during the season. And in the time since, he has added another 15 pounds, leaving him just five short of his previous playing weight. So that is certainly a reason why things might have gone as bad. bad last year. Call it an excuse if you want, but I feel like that's pretty good reason.

Starting point is 00:18:48 Why things weren't where he wanted them to be and where, you know, his teams, the Dodgers and certainly the Red Sox when they acquired him was not the guy that they were getting. But if I'm going to point out how good he was before last year, then you can't brush off last season. That's no big deal. You can't just go, you know, it's because of the, no, I mean, we don't know that. I'm sure it had something to do with it, but we don't know. We don't know if that was all that was going on, which leads me to the number three issue, can a guy who in his career hasn't historically been someone you can trust to be there for you every fifth day really be the right fit for the younger staff that the St. Louis

Starting point is 00:19:28 Cardinals look like they're going to have? Matthew Libertor, Michael McGreevy, Kyle Leahy, Andre Palante, Richard Fitz, any of the other younger dudes that are going to be coming up from the minor leagues. Is adding Dustin May the answer? Is that the kind of pitcher you need that is a health risk? The first four guys that I brought up there, Libby, McGreevy, Leahy, Palante, they have not dealt with major issues. Doesn't mean it can't happen, though. Fitz dealt with multiple issues last year, including right-arm neuritis,

Starting point is 00:20:00 which is this a Boston thing? Why has everybody got neuritis in Boston? But you had Libby with his fatigue moments in his first year as a starter, something to keep an eye on and think about. Although, coming into this season, he should be mentally in physical. physically prepared for the long haul of being a starter instead of reliever. And as much as we hope to have the same luck as the Cardinals did last year when it came to the health of your starting rotation, it's not normal. It's not normal. And you should be prepared for guys to get heard and not be available.

Starting point is 00:20:34 And I feel like Heinblum is doing that by just acquiring more and more arms. He continues to try to bring more in. but the Cardinals who just imported two guys who weren't healthy last year to pick up the slack for two guys that were very healthy last year and Sunny Gray and Miles Michaelis, who covered a lot of innings for this team and a lot of starts. So now you've got two guys trying to fill those two holes, and they're not exactly the most trustworthy guys to do that at this point in their career. So I know it's a risk, and odds are that at some point,

Starting point is 00:21:07 Dustin May is probably going to miss some starts. but for what the Cardinals are attempting to do in 2026, the possibility that he will finally be healthy, I think makes sense, is why I think this whole signing makes sense. And I'm excited to see him on the Mounted Bush Stadium in a few months. I'm really excited. I'm going to throw this picture up again.

Starting point is 00:21:27 I want to see him and Liam Doyle together. I need to see two of these guys just bringing the energy. I mean, this is what I want to see. see some swagger, some energy. Obviously, they got the red hair, which is great. Like, I'm into it. I'm into it. I think that'll be a fun tandem. And they can keep them around together. Obviously, one-year deal, mutual option. We don't know when Liam Doyle's going to make it up to the pros. If ever, you never know. Not to, you know, put anything, you know, bad, any bad mojo. I don't was just saying. But I think this makes sense. The team will have to make a 40-man

Starting point is 00:22:10 roster move when the deal is made official whenever that goes down because their 40-man is full after the Rule 5 draft. One of the ways they could clear up a spot, make a trade. You could still make a trade, Cardinals. And the rumors continue to be out there about the Cardinals and making and that's where we're going to head next. The latest on Brendan Donovan coming up on Locked on Cardinals. The World Cup is coming back to North America for the first time since 1994. 48 teams for the first time ever. It's going to be massive. It's huge.

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Starting point is 00:24:26 and exclusive access to the members-only Discord channel where we can all get together and discuss things going on with the Cardinals and baseball in general. The trade rumors, they continue to surround the Cardinals and Utility Man, Brennan Donovan, Katie Wu formally covering the Cardinals for the athletic. I'm just double checking if there's anything breaking while we're sitting here. I just want to make sure.

Starting point is 00:24:51 I want to make sure I'm up today. But Katie Wu talked over the weekend that the Mariners and the Giants have emerged as frontrunners for Britain Donovan with the Cardinals looking to land multiple top prospects in a return. And I love the fact that this continues to go round and round and round and round. because it means the asking price is going to go up, up, up, up, up. And whatever the return is for Brinandem, it's just getting bigger and better each time around. She continued to say that one name the Cardinals have inquired on is pitcher

Starting point is 00:25:21 Gerangelo Sanger. Like I butchered that dude's name so many times when we talked about him recently. Gerangelo Sengia is his name. First round draft pick for Seattle 2024. The dude throws both left and right. And he's a pitcher. Yes. Yes, abidextrious, does both.

Starting point is 00:25:43 And then she also brought up outfielder Lazaro Montez, who we also have brought up before, says that they've been discussed among others. As far as the Giants go, she said the Giants can be just as aggressive in their pursuit. Several top prospects have been discussed in negotiations, including infielder Gavin Killing and left-eander Carson Wizz and Hunt. She says, according to a source.

Starting point is 00:26:06 She says it's believed at least two organizational prospects will be required to land Donovan, who has acquired interest from over half the league. Ken Rosenthal discussed the Royals in today's article, said that their interest in Donnie, the path for those teams, talking about the Giants and Mariners, who Donovan is cleaner than it is for the Royals. To make a deal happen, the Royals probably would need to orchestrate a three-way swap. Trading left-hander Chris Bubich for prospects, they could redirect to the Cardinals. Boobitch projected to earn $6 million in arbitration before becoming a free agent

Starting point is 00:26:40 is of little interest to St. Louis, a rebuilding club. I agree. Unless he's going to be around for a couple of years, we're not interested in that. We don't need that. We don't need to trade for a guy that's not going to be here when the Cardinals are ready to compete again.

Starting point is 00:26:56 Now, Gerangelo O'Sangell was taken 15th overall by the Mariners in 2024, and I was watching some videos over the weekend about him. It's wild, dude. He's currently the M7th best rated prospect, according to MLB pipeline. Throwing a lefty and riding is just wild to me. My dad used to do that. We'd be out there playing catch, and he could do it both ways.

Starting point is 00:27:19 And I'm like, I don't know how you did that. And all I can say is my dad was not born in the right era because he can do both. And that would have worked out. He missed his window back in the day. but um, Sanjay got to double A last year in his first full pro season, had a combined record of five and seven, 3.99 ERA, 120 strikeouts and 108 in the third innings.

Starting point is 00:27:42 People are excited about him. Seattle is excited about them. They like him a lot. You can see why the Cardinals would like him a lot. And, um, yeah, he has to declare which side he's going to throw with before the batter steps in so that the batter can decide where he wants to hit from because you have switch hitters too. So anyway, interesting.

Starting point is 00:28:01 prospect for sure. Lizarro Montes is the third rank prospect. Again, we talked about him when we did that mock trade. If you remember, every day or as you do, I'm sure. But when we made that mock trade with the Mets and the Mariners, that was up at MLB.com, where it was a three-way swap. And the Cardinals had Aronado go into the Mets. Donnie would go to Seattle. And the Cardinals would not get Sanger. Sanger was going to New York, I believe, and then the Cardinals were going to get Montes. And big-time power prospect, right?

Starting point is 00:28:42 Number three, ranked prospect for the Mariners, 32 homers last year, 89 ribbies combined at high A and AA. Massive dude, 6-5. Does swing and mess a lot, a bunch. 169Ks and 131 games, 490 at bat. So that's one thing that people are, like, oh, no, that could be a problem.

Starting point is 00:29:02 You know, we've seen how people react to Nolan Gorman striking out all the time. So, but if you're hitting 32 home runs, okay, all right, a little give and take there. But he reminds a lot of people of Yorda on Alvarez just because of his size, swings from the left side. Not like a huge athlete, same way Alvarez is not good outfield by any means. He should be playing first base or just deaching, which is probably where Montesco's at some point, but the power is real. It's real. So would Seattle really move both for Donnie after losing Jorge Polanco? I don't know. It seems like a lot. Seems like a lot to me. But for the Cardinals, yeah, I mean, that would be nice. For the Giants, Killen and Wes and Hunt

Starting point is 00:29:46 are their number three, number seven prospects as well. Killing is a middle infielder. Was their first round pick last year, number 13 overall out of Tennessee, 21 years old, got hurt, only played 10 games last season after getting drafted, but has put up awesome numbers. I think played at Louisville before he transferred to Tennessee. And that's the proper way to say it, by the way, is Louisville, not Louisville, don't say it that way. Learn, learn from those mistakes.

Starting point is 00:30:15 And then Wiz and Hunt, second round pick in 2022, left-handers, six-foot-three, made it to the major leagues last year, two and one, ERA, 5.01 and five starts. 70-grade change-up. Again, 20-80 scale. 70, you don't see a lot of 70s out there, 70 grade changeup, which is awesome. But most of those other stuff is just considered kind of average.

Starting point is 00:30:34 But if you had those two deals, which one would you take? Which one do you like? I like the upside of the Seattle guys over the Giants guys personally. Obviously, the ambidextrous thrower is very intriguing of how that would work out. Is he better at one than the other? I haven't scouted him enough to know that, but he's throwing both ways in the minors. And then just cardals don't have a whole lot of power prospects in their minor leagues right now. Not a ton.

Starting point is 00:31:04 And to get somebody with the ability the way Montes does, it's something they should look into for sure. So those were the latest updates on Donovan. Real quick, former Cardinal legend, wait, hold on. Not Cardo. Former Rangers legend Adoli-Scarcia. As a new home signing a one year. $10 million deal with the Philadelphia Phillies. Looks like he's going to be their right fielder.

Starting point is 00:31:30 I don't know what they're going to do with Nick Castiano. They're probably going to trade. I'm not sure where. I don't know. But the bat for Adoles has declined a lot in the last couple seasons following that monster 2020 campaign when he helped lead Texas to a World Chief Championship. I know the Reds had some interest in him.

Starting point is 00:31:53 They're still looking for a right-handed bat. Maybe Nick Castellanos goes to see. Cincinnati or back to Cincinnati, I should say. We shall see, but I am glad that Adoli's Garcia did not land in the NL Central with the Brewers, the Cubs, the Reds, the Pirates, so he could torment Cardinal fans even more. I'm glad that that did not happen. So that's going to wrap it up. Thanks for making Locked on Cardinals your first listen every day.

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