On December 10th in Orlando, Florida. Major League Baseball and all 30 clubs with an open 40-man roster spot will have the opportunity to steal eligible young talent from another organisation in hopes of finding a marginal advantage on the roster. Most recently, the St. Louis Cardinals drafted Ryan Fernandez in the 2023 Rule 5 draft, and after being eased into a bullpen role, the more Manager Oliver Marmol gained trust in him, the more high-leverage opportunities he was given. So much so that entering the 2025 season, most Cardinals fans assumed he was an ascending back-of-the-bullpen option and could be a potential future closer. 2025 obviously did not go Fernandez’s way, and he was unable to capture some of the magic that he found in his first season with St. Louis. In 2026, Fernandez wi

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