Kevin Herget joins the RedHawks for his eighth season of professional baseball and first in independent ball. He brings Triple-A talent to the pitching staff, having appeared in 51 games at the second-highest level in affiliated baseball over parts of three seasons. The 30-year-old most recently appeared in 2019 with the Cardinals’ Rookie team in the Gulf Coast League, making two appearances and striking out four batters in 3.0 innings of work while rehabbing an injury. He was placed on the injured list after his two outings and did not appear again in 2019. In 2018, Herget made 28 appearances (22 starts) for the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds, going 4-2 with a 4.62 ERA and 60 strikeouts to 21 walks in 138.2 innings pitched while helping lead the team to the Triple-A National Championship for the second straight season. He started the title game on Sept. 18, 2018 and earned the win, limiting the Durham Bulls to two runs on five hits in 5.1 innings pitched in a 14-4 Memphis win at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio. Herget’s career 3.76 strikeouts to walk ratio is the highest on the RedHawks roster coming into the 2021 season.

Drafted in the 39th Round of the 2013 MLB Amateur Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals, Herget has spent all of his seven affiliated seasons within the Cardinals organization. He has also played two seasons of winter league ball, one each in the Venezuelan and Dominican winter leagues. In his debut season in 2013, Herget became the first pitcher for the State College Spikes (St. Louis, A-) to start the season with seven straight winning decisions, tying for the New York-Penn League lead in wins that year.