The last decade St. Louis Cardinals baseball has featured some of the best bench players the team could’ve asked for. From (that one season of) Pete Kozma, to Daniel Descalso, Jeremy Hazelbaker, and Jedd Gyorko, the team has always gotten unexpected contributions from players off of the bench.
When Cardinals acquired Yairo Munoz and Max Schrock for Stephen Piscotty before the 2018 season, it looked like one or both of them could keep building that legacy for the team. Then in 2018, Munoz and his league-minimum salary made Jedd Gyorko and his large paycheck seem unnecessary.