Over the last few weeks, the St. Louis Cardinals have replenished a minor league system lacking upper level pitching depth. The team moved quickly to add three pitchers and re-sign two that that were brought into the organization recently. Domingo Robles was acquired in late September of 2020 and Tyler Pike was signed to a minor league contract in May. Clearly the organization saw enough from the pair to give them another season.
The three new pitchers are LJay Newsome, James Naile, and Kyle Ryan. Ryan has been bouncing between Triple-A and the majors since 2014, Naile has over 200 innings of Triple-A experience and Newsome, who is much younger than the other two, has less Triple-A experience, but he has thrown 30 major league innings in the last two seasons.