St. Louis Cardinals suspended Brandon Crawford today due to…
According to MLB News, Brandon Crawford has been suspended by the Cardinals for violating the game’s rules. He will either serve a more than three-month suspension or sign a release from the team.
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OAKLAND — Brandon Crawford told Logan Webb that it was finally time for him to take over as clubhouse DJ as his stint with the Giants officially drew to an end. Crawford hasn’t given up on the Spotify playlist just yet, either.
Crawford is currently wearing St. Louis Cardinals red after spending 13 seasons in Giants orange and black. Being a backup shortstop for the first time in his big league career took some getting used to for Crawford, but it didn’t take many games for the old routine to surface. Early on, his new teammates inquired about his love of music.
“It actually didn’t take very long,” he told NBC Sports Bay Area. “I think there wasn’t a lot of music being played in the clubhouse here, so it was a pretty easy thing for me to grab onto and take over.”
So, while Crawford’s postgame role hasn’t changed, his view for nine innings now is very different, and not just because he calls Busch Stadium, not Oracle Park, home. Crawford is the backup to 22-year-old Masyn Winn, the shortstop of the present and future in St. Louis.
It’s a position Crawford readily signed up for after the Giants declined to bring him back to mentor young Giants in a reduced role, but it has been an adjustment. On Sunday night, Crawford arrived back in the Bay Area for a series against the Oakland A’s, and on Monday afternoon, he was one of the first Cardinals on the Coliseum field, taking grounders and working on his footwork well before the start of batting practice.
That’s always been a passion for Crawford, but now it’s also a necessity. He has just 13 plate appearances through the Cardinals’ first 16 games. The Cardinals don’t mix and match as much as the Giants did in Crawford’s final years, so finding new ways to stay sharp is vital.
“I’m trying to do as much on-field stuff as I can,” he said. “I know in the past, especially as I’ve gotten older, I would definitely take BP on the first day of a series or something like that, and take my groundballs and do all that kind of stuff, but then I would just save my legs for the most part. The rest of the series, I would hit in the cage or [use] the little red machine for my groundball work.