JUPITER, Fla. — Monday afternoon Tommy Edman will start his second game at shortstop since returning to the Cardinals from the World Baseball Classic, but the shortstop Edman supplanted may have moved closer to starting the regular season on the injured list.
Paul DeJong had been slated to return to the lineup on Tuesday, one week after the Cardinals scratched him from the lineup due to back tightness. Instead, manager Oliver Marmol said that DeJong had “a little bit of a setback.”
DeJong’s back “tightened up” when taking ground balls on Monday morning, Marmol said. The expectation was that DeJong may not play this week, but Marmol still needed to meet with the club’s medical staff before he’d make any decisions on the plan going forward for DeJong.