JUPITER, Fla. • It has been two years, six months, and five days – 919 days, total – since Alex Reyes made his heralded major-league debut and offered a glimpse of who the Cardinals and many around baseball believed to be the best pitching prospect in the game.
With almost as many surgeries (two) as innings in the majors (four) since the end of the 2016 season, Reyes has spent the past two years detached from the team, from competition, and from that promise long attached to him. He has felt – well, he didn’t want to say alone.