The St. Louis Cardinals announced on Monday that they had released backup catcher Brayan Pena. If you don’t follow baseball very closely, you may have not even known who he was.
Here’s a quick re-run. Back in November of 2015, the Cardinals had announced that they had signed Peña to a 2 year deal that guarantees him 2.5 million at the end of each year. After this deal was announced, the Cardinals traded Tony Cruz, who had been Yadier Molina‘s backup since 2011, to the Royals in exchange for rookie-ball infielder/outfielder Jose Martinez.