The Cardinals are turning their revamped Jupiter complex into something they haven’t really had before: a place where offseason development doesn’t stop when the regular schedule does.
St. Louis president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom said Sunday on KMOX’s Tom Ackerman show that the club has started a fall program in Jupiter, giving several dozen non-roster players a chance to stay on site and train for the next six weeks. Instead of handing players a workout sheet and sending them home, the Cardinals can now keep them in-house and work with them directly.
“We do have, starting actually (Monday) in Jupiter, we have a fall program where it's got several dozen non-roster players that we invite that we can continue to train for the next six weeks in Jupiter,” Bloom said. “It's one of the benefits of now having a renovated facility is we can do this really well, and it's also something where we talked about the investment that ownership has made into the organization.
“This is something that we did not do at this scale in the past. To be able to take a select group of players...and continue training them into the offseason.
They're with us. We didn't need to send them home with a plan because we have them right now, that group of 50 or so guys.
When they hit the end of this in November, they'll go home with a plan from there. Of course our facility is always going to be open to our 40-man players as well.”
The Cardinals’ Jupiter campus, where the team holds spring training, has been in the works for years and was completed in time for this past spring. Now it’s being used year-round. The facility includes a 70,000-square-foot fitness and weight center, a recovery and medical area, hitting and pitching labs, and clubhouse amenities that include a state-of-the-art dining hall.
According to Cardinals Player Development, the program is designed to offer individualized training, build physical capacity, and create a competitive, team-oriented environment that can help shape culture and connection across the organization.
Several of the club’s top prospects are part of the program, including Rainiel Rodriguez, Liam Doyle, Jesus Baez, Jurrangelo Cijntje, and Brandon Clarke. In all, 69 non-40-man players will be at the site.
The club announced on its Player Development account that the 2026 Fall Off-Season Program began Sunday and will run for six weeks at the Jupiter facility.
Bloom also noted the bigger picture around the organization’s investment. While the payroll has come down since its peak in 2023, the DeWitt family has continued to put money into the franchise through areas like expanded coaching staffs, more executives, and the new facility in Jupiter.
Even with less spending on free agents, the Cardinals are still funneling resources into the organization itself, and this fall program is the latest sign of that approach.
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