There seemed to be a lot of hype about the first full season of Alex Reyes with the St. Louis Cardinals. With good reason, he showed great promise in his short Major League stint last season, along with being the number six prospect according to the original release of MLB Pipelines top 100 prospects. Since the injury news, he has dropped to 14.
Reyes was likely to be the number five starter to fill out the back end of the rotation. Now he is gone for the year, there will be some decisions to make about who to take over the number five spot.