Mile Leake Agrees to Finalized Deal With Cards

 St .Louis In charge of a bullpen to accompany some authoritativeness to the average of the rotation, the Cardinals accept an acceding in abode with free-agent Mike Leake.

A antecedent accustomed with the negotiations told the Post-Dispatch the two abandon are "getting closer." A additional antecedent accepted that an acceding is getting finalized, awaiting a physical.
A accord could be completed as aboriginal as Tuesday.

The Cardinals do not animadversion on signings until they are finalized, and to them that agency the achievement of a physical.
Cincinnati Reds starting bullpen Mike Leake throws adjoin the St. Louis Cardinals in the aboriginal inning of a baseball game, Sunday, May 25, 2014, in Cincinnati

The adolescent righthander, who debuted with the Cincinnati Reds beeline out of college, went 11-10 with 3.70 ERA endure season. His 1.161 WHIP ranked a part of the leaders in the National League. Of absorption to the Cardinals his age, the charge they would accept to accomplish to him financially, and the actuality that because he was traded from the Reds to the Giants this accomplished year he will not amount them a abstract aces to sign.

The Arizona Diamondbacks had been absorbed in signing Leake, who lives in Arizona, afore they active Zack Greinke and fabricated the accord for above Cardinals amateur Shelby Miller. That adapted the bazaar for Leake, whom the Cardinals had maintained absorption in back missing in their following of lefty David Price. Sources accepted to the Post-Dispatch beforehand this ages that one of the affidavit the Cardinals were alone befitting tabs on the bazaar for Jeff Samardzija was because their alternative was Leake.