MIAMI — St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado left Wednesday’s game against Miami after being hit in the right elbow by a fastball from Marlins reliever Huascar Brazoban in the eighth inning.
Arenado collapsed into a heap after the pitch struck first his elbow and then his midsection. He remained on the ground for about two minutes before he was escorted to the dugout by a Cardinals trainer.
The team said he suffered a bruised elbow and was undergoing further evaluation.
Arenado, an eight-time All-Star, is hitting .260 with six homers and 32 RBIs.
The MLB GM Meetings this week did not reveal anything definitive about the Toronto Blue Jays’ offseason plans, but it appears the club might be more active in the starting pitching market than expected.
While Toronto’s roster strength is its rotation, that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be served by an injection of talent. Its foundational trio of Kevin Gausman, José Berríos, and Chris Bassit have a combined age of 98—and none of them are under team control past 2026, with Berríos carrying an opt-out after that season.
The bottom of the rotation (Bowden Francis and Yariel Rodríguez) are both difficult to project with the former coming off a mind-boggling late-season breakout and the latter following a workload-building year that yielded mixed results.
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