The St. Louis Cardinals continue to hover around the .500 mark. With about 20 games left in the season, the front office is assessing which players will serve in prominent roles heading into the 2026 season.
The concern is that some young players have yet to find their footing in the pros, and with a change of leadership in the front office following the season, nobody's job is truly safe.
Especially for players like Jordan Walker, who has really struggled this season, and overall, has not been who the Cardinals had hoped he'd be to this point.
Is Jordan Walker's job in jeopardy?
This is Jordan Walker's third season at the big league level, and he's yet to post a bWAR higher than 0, which is concerning, and there's not much he can do the rest of this season to make his -1.5 bWAR get to 0. He's played in 93 games this season, and has just five home runs, 34 RBIs, and an OPS+ of 62. Those numbers are really bad and are definitely holding the Cardinals' lineup back.
With the new president of baseball operations, Chaim Bloom, eager to get his hands on handling the Cardinals' roster personnel, he may not have as much faith as John Mozeilak did. Now, what does that mean for Walker? He could start the 2026 season down in Triple-A to potentially fix his mechanics. He doesn't exactly have a great amount of trade value due to his struggles.
Once a top prospect in all of baseball, Jordan Walker has learned the hard way how hard playing baseball at the MLB level is. He now has 895 at-bats under his belt, and he's striking out at a 30% rate, and his career OPS is .683. His OPS this season is microscopic .574.
Walker is just 23 years old, and it's common for players under 25 to struggle, but he has the physical tools and has been given a plethora of MLB at-bats. Considering the Cardinals may be entering a rebuild next season, it would make sense for St. Louis to allow Walker to work out his struggles, but you have to think time may be running out for the young outfielder.