St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright is not going to pitch once more this season, manager Oli Marmol told reporters prior to Tuesday night’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers. As a outcome, Wainwright’s yr and career could have culminated with his Sept. 18 look that served as his two hundredth victory. (Wainwright will, probably, nonetheless carry out his tune this weekend at Busch Stadium as up to now promised.)
Wainwright, 42, had a coarse ultimate season general. In 21 begins, he gathered a 7.40 ERA (58 ERA+) and a 1.34 strikeout-to-walk ratio. He entered the yr wanting simply 5 victories to transparent the 200-win threshold for his career, but the ones victories proved laborious to return by way of. Indeed, he have been caught on No. 198 from the time he recorded it on June 17 till Sept. 12, casting doubt on whether or not or now not he would have the ability to succeed in that milestone.
Wainwright did, and did it with his greatest look of the season, consistent with Bill James’ Game Score metric. He threw seven shutout frames in opposition to the Milwaukee Brewers, keeping them to simply 4 hits and two walks. Wainwright additionally struck out 3 of the 25 batters he confronted.
Wainwright will now head into the broadcast booth having finished an 18-season career that noticed him tally the ones aforementioned 200 wins, as smartly as assemble a three.53 ERA (113 ERA+) and a 2.99 strikeout-to-walk ratio. His contributions have been value an estimated 40.5 Wins Above Replacement, consistent with Baseball-Reference’s calculations.
For the ones questioning, Wainwright ranks 9th in Cardinals franchise historical past in Wins Above Replacement. He’s 2d amongst pitchers, trailing most effective the mythical Bob Gibson, who completed his career with 81.7 WAR.Â
Wainwright is the 3rd notable Cardinals participant to retire prior to now yr, becoming a member of slugger Albert Pujols and longtime batterymate and catcher Yadier Molina.