“I believe he’s definitely getting itchy to get going,” Mozeliak said this past weekend in Pittsburgh. “I wanted to let him know why. I could tell there was — there was this sense of frustration. ‘I’ve been working really hard and I want to go.’ Which, really, you have to admire.”
Sidelined since spring training 2017 by an elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery, Reyes became eligible to start his rehab assignment Saturday. He did not, by design. Because the Cardinals placed him on the 60-day DL, the earliest Reyes can return to the active roster is May 28, and rather than exhaust his entire 30-day rehab assignment by starting it Saturday, the Cardinals wanted to build in some flexibility.