The St. Louis Cardinals have suffered another injury. In a bit of a freak accident, slugging outfielder Marcell Ozuna was injured on Friday night after diving back into the first base bag on a pickoff attempt. This was a bit of a freak injury and I can’t blame Ozuna for it happening, it’s just bad luck.
The injury bug hasn’t bit the Cardinals too bad this year, but this injury has taken the Cardinals best hitter out of their lineup. Ozuna currently has a slash line of .259/.331/.515 with 20 homers and 62 RBI’s. Ozuna was (and I guess still is) on pace to amass more than 100 RBI’s for the first time since 2017 and be the first Cardinals player to do that since way back in 2012 when Matt Holliday had 102 RBI’s.