Jaime Garcia will be returning to the Cards' rotation next season.
The St. Louis Cardinals took care of one relatively sizable question for their offseason on Sunday night, exercising a team option on left-handed starter Jaime Garcia. He'll be paid $11.5 million for the upcoming season, as the Cards saw his upside as being worth the financial commitment.
The 29-year-old went 10-6 with a 2.43 ERA in 2015, amassing more than 129 innings of work spread among 20 starts.
Despite Garcia's tendency for trips to the disabled list and occasional unreliability, general manager John Mozeliak told Joe Strauss of the St.