Less than a month after acquiring Tommy Pham at the trade deadline, the St. Louis Cardinals have reportedly put the veteran outfielder on waivers.
According to The Athletic‘s Katie Woo, St. Louis had been contemplating the move over the past few days, and finally made the decision to go ahead and make Pham available to any teams interested in adding the outfielder.
MLB’s post-season eligibility deadline is on Sunday, so if Pham is not claimed before then, he will not be available to play with any other team when the playoffs roll around.
The 36-year-old is scheduled to become a free agent in the off-season, so if a team were to claim him, it would be on the hook for the remaining $850,000 of his contract, Woo reported.
After sitting just 2.0 games back of the final National League wild-card spot on deadline day, the Cardinals have struggled since adding Pham, Erick Fedde and Shawn Armstrong. Entering play Monday, they sat 7.0 games out of a playoff spot.
St. Louis acquired Pham alongside Fedde in a three-way trade with the Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers, in which it traded away Tommy Edman and Oliver Gonzalez.
In 70 games with the White Sox to begin the season, Pham posted an OPS of .710 with five home runs. But in 23 games with the Cardinals, the 11-year MLB veteran has just a .653 OPS, .206 batting average and two home runs.
Pham has played with seven different franchises since Opening Day in 2021.