The St. Louis Cardinals got some seriously bad news on Friday.

Richard Fitts didn't make the Cardinals' big league club out of Spring Training. The righty flamethrower made three starts in Spring Training and had a 5.79 ERA across 9 1/3 innings pitched. While he didn't make the team out of camp, he flashed a big-time fastball and legit stuff in camp that was shown early in the season in Triple-A. He made three starts with Triple-A Memphis and had a 1.76 ERA across 15 1/3 innings pitched.

Earlier in the week, Fitts landed on the Injured List in a blow to the club's depth due to a right lat strain . When the news broke, there wasn't a clear indication of how serious the injury is. On Friday, Daniel Guerrero of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch broke the news on X that the injury was bad enough that Fitts underwent season-ending surgery to correct the lat strain.

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