JUPITER, Fla. • It seemed that Cardinals reliever Luke Gregerson endured virtually every injury known to man last season. “Why do you have to remind me?” he asked with a wan smile.
Gregerson, 34, sustained an oblique injury early in spring training and suffered a left hamstring ailment in running drills later in the spring. Then he had elbow trouble and, most significant, a shoulder impingement throughout the season, landing him on the disabled list three times.
Of 162 potential games on the roster, the righthander missed 128 of them, pitching just 17 times covering 12 2/3 innings after being advertised early in camp as the club’s potential closer.