JJ Wetherholt
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| 4/25/25 | Cardinals Might Have Future Superstar On Their Hands. The St. Louis Cardinals aren't in the position they wanted to be in right now and have had a rough week or so. The Cardinals have a lot of talent on this roster despite a tough week so there's merit to the idea of the team turning things around. No matter what happens, though, there's one guy to be really excited about right now down in the minors. 2024 Major League Baseball June Amateur Draft No. 7 pick JJ Wetherholt has been dominant in the minors so far to kick off his young career and looks like a guy who could be a future franchise cornerstone-level player. Source: https://www.si.com/mlb/cardinals/st-louis-cardinal... |
| 4/17/25 | Cardinals Phenom's Insane Stretch Is Putting League On Notice. The St. Louis Cardinals have one of the most intriguing prospects in the minor leagues right now. Infielder JJ Wetherholt was selected with the No. 7 pick in the 2024 Major League Baseball June Amateur Draft by the Cardinals and quickly has shot up the prospect charts. Source: https://www.si.com/mlb/cardinals/st-louis-cardinal... |
| 3/24/25 | St. Louis Cardinals' Top Prospect Learns Minor League Placement For Start of 2025. The St. Louis Cardinals have told top prospect JJ Wetherholt that he'll begin the year at Double-A, according to a report from Derrick Goold. JJ Wetherholt will start season with Class AA @Sgf_Cardinals, POBO John Mozeliak says. Top prospect was seventh overall pick this past summer and already within view of the majors with #SCards. Wetherholt is currently ranked as the No. 23 prospect in baseball, per MLB Pipeline. Source: https://www.si.com/onsi/minor-league-baseball/news... |
| 3/15/25 | Cardinals top prospect JJ Wetherholt embracing first taste of the Majors. Spring training is about optimism, and believing in what the future may hold. One of the most talked about names of Cardinals camp, is last year's first-round draft pick, JJ Wetherholt. Although he's been assigned to minor league camp, the hard-hitting infielder made an impression, and could be in St. Louis sooner than you might think. Wetherholt has often been described as the "steal" of the 2024 draft, falling to the Cardinals with the No. 7 overall pick. Source: https://www.ksdk.com/article/sports/mlb/stl-cardin... |
| 3/14/25 | Meet JJ Wetherholt: Cardinals top prospect making his mark this spring. JJ Wetherholt's first spring training with the St. Louis Cardinals' big-league club has come to an end. The Cardinals' first-round pick last year, selected seventh overall, was assigned to minor-league camp on Wednesday, but not before leaving a strong impression. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/meet-jj-wetherhol... |
| 3/12/25 | Cardinals Demote Phenom Slugger To Minor League Camp Amid Latest Roster Cuts. The St. Louis Cardinals are nearly two weeks away from their season opener against the Minnesota Twins on Mar. 27th but still have several roster cuts to make. Wednesday's major league camp cuts have helped the Cardinals inch closer to solidifying their 40-man roster for 2025. The two newest St. Louis prospects to be optioned down to the minors includes the organization's top prospect. "Left-handed pitcher Oddanier Mosqueda and infielder JJ Wetherholt have been re-assigned to minor league camp," the franchise announced Wednesday morning. Source: https://www.si.com/mlb/cardinals/st-louis-cardinal... |
| 2/23/25 | Despite 3-run Westerholt home run, Cardinals drop second straight spring training game. When Cardinals top prospect JJ Wetherholt came up to bat in the fifth inning on Sunday, he took what he later described as “one of the worst swings of my life.” Nobody except Wetherholt will remember that because of what happened on the next pitch. Wetherholt, the Cardinals first-round pick in the amateur draft just eight months ago, hit a three-run homer on the next pitch, delivering one of the few highlights in the Cardinals second consecutive loss to begin the spring. Starting two double plays, including one in the first inning, helped Wetherholt settle into his big-league debut, hitting a bloop single to center for his first hit in his second at-bat in the fourth. Source: https://www.ksdk.com/article/sports/mlb/stl-cardin... |
| 2/07/25 | First impressions: Cardinals top prospect JJ Wetherholt readies for spring training debut. On the eve of his first major-league spring training with the St. Louis Cardinals, top prospect JJ Wetherholt joins the Best Podcast in Baseball for a discussion about his preparation, his health, his strides as a pro, his goals at shortstop, and his of a new technology to learn more about reaction time. A production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and host Derrick Goold, BPIB is approaching its 13th year as the leading podcast about baseball in St. Louis and the St. Louis Cardinals. Source: https://www.stltoday.com/sports/professional/mlb/c... |
| 1/16/25 | Cardinals make big top prospect decision for spring training. The St. Louis have invited numerous non-roster prospects to spring training next month and that list includes their top prospect in shortstop JJ Wetherholt, who will experience big league spring training for the very first time. This is a bit of a surprise considering Wetherholt was just drafted last summer. The Cardinals took him with the seventh overall pick in the draft and Wetherholt was instantly sent to Single-A Palm Beach. Despite being so young, his experience at the college level could skyrocket Wetherholt's journey to the big leagues, especially with the Cardinals not exactly contending these days. Source: https://clutchpoints.com/cardinals-news-st-louis-b... |
| 12/13/24 | Cardinals hope to find another JJ Wetherholt in this year’s MLB Draft. Not only do they have a top 10 pick for just the second time ever, a compensatory pick will give them three total in the top 75. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/cardinals-hope-another-jj... |
| 11/29/24 | Cardinals Top Prospects Listed As Reason For Team To Be Thankful. The St. Louis Cardinals are set to enter a rebuild and will prioritize youth rather than look to improve their roster for 2025. Fortunately, even as they put contending on the backburner for a year, there are some solid young prospects in their system that will soon be ready to make an impact on the Major League roster and set the stage for a bright future in St. Louis. Sam Dykstra of MLB.com listed one reason for each Major League team to be thankful, and for the Cardinals, it was their farm system that includes top prospects JJ Wetherholt and Thomas Saggese. Source: https://www.si.com/mlb/cardinals/st-louis-cardinal... |
| 10/27/24 | St. Louis Cardinals Top 10 Prospects For 2025 Fantasy Baseball. 1. SS JJ Wetherholt | 22 | A | 2026
The seventh overall pick out of West Virginia, Wetherholt was in the running to be the number one pick but lost time to a hamstring injury and may have slipped a little due to the relative weakness of the Big 12 Conference. A left-handed hitter at 5’10” 190 lbs, he features double-plus contact skills along with plus power and speed. The Cubs fan in me was disappointed to see Wetherholt land in St. Louis because I think he was a steal at the seven spot. Sure, the conference creates a question or two, but Wetherholt has been good in other settings: Team USA, the Cape Cod League and pro ball now after slashing .295/.405/.400 in 29 Low-A games. Source: https://razzball.com/st-louis-cardinals-top-10-pro... |
| 8/14/24 | JJ Wetherholt ranked Cardinals No. 1 prospect, top-20 in all of MLB. (AP Photo/LM Otero) MLB.com updated their Top 100 Baseball Prospects list on Tuesday and former Mountaineer JJ Wetherholt is listed as the top prospect in the St. Louis Cardinals' organization. Wetherholt was taken seventh overall in this year's MLB Draft after he played at WVU for three seasons. Source: https://westvirginia.rivals.com/news/jj-wetherholt... |
| 8/08/24 | Cardinals top draft pick comes through, shows off impressive power stroke. The St. Louis Cardinals drafted unusually high this season after a dreadful 2023 campaign. St. Louis ultimately picked seventh following their 71-91 finish. With their first-round pick, they selected infielder JJ Wetherholt out of West Virginia University. Wetherholt recently made his professional debut and has been performing well at Single-A Palm Beach. Source: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/cardinals... |
| 7/31/24 | Cardinals top 2024 draft pick JJ Wetherholt makes pro debut: Minor League Report. Infield prospect JJ Wetherholt, who the Cardinals selected with the seventh overall pick in this year's MLB draft, went one-for-two on Tuesday in his professional debut with Class Low-A Palm Beach. The 21-year-old infielder started at shortstop and singled on a ball that jumped off his bat with a 107.4 mph exit velocity, per Statcast. Wetherholt walked and struck out in his other two plate appearances before he, like three other 2024 draftees who made their pro debuts on Tuesday, came out of the game at the start of the sixth inning. The first minor league game for Wetherholt comes over three weeks after he was drafted and over seven weeks after he played in his last NCAA game for West Virginia University. Source: https://www.stltoday.com/sports/professional/mlb/c... |
| 7/30/24 | Cardinals' top pick JJ Wetherholt receives affiliate assignment, Chase Davis gets promotion. A number of moves within the Cardinals minor league system announced on Tuesday revealed where St. Louis's top pick from this year's draft will begin his professional career and what the next step is for its top pick from a summer ago. Infielder JJ Wetherholt, the Cardinals' first-round pick (seventh overall) in this year's draft, was assigned to Class Low-A Palm Beach. Outfielder Chase Davis, a first-round selection (21st overall) by the Cardinals last year, was promoted from Class Low-A to Class High-A after he batted .232 with a .738 on-base plus slugging percentage in 74 Low-A games this year. Source: https://www.stltoday.com/sports/professional/mlb/c... |
| 7/23/24 | Cardinals finalize record bonus for 1st-round pick, set to outspend cap (again): Cardinals Extra. As the Cardinals finalized Monday the largest bonus — by a lot — they've offered a pick since the advent of the modern draft, they remained on track to spend beyond their assigned cap for the 13th consecutive year. JJ Wetherholt, the seventh overall pick, signed his first pro contract with the Cardinals on Monday, the club announced. Wetherholt, a gifted left-handed hitter who won the NCAA batting title as a sophomore with a .449 average, will report to Jupiter, Florida, to begin his pro career. The Cardinals have two affiliates, Class A Palm Beach and their Florida Complex League club, housed at their spring training campus. Source: https://www.stltoday.com/sports/professional/mlb/c... |
| 7/16/24 | Switalski selected by San Francisco in 16th round. JJ Wetherholt became the top draft selection in the history of West Virginia's baseball program when the shortstop was selected Sunday night by the St. Louis Cardinals with the seventh overall pick. Since then, the Mountaineers' storyline around the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft has been centered around the team's pitching staff, and it continued Tuesday on the third and final day of the draft. Left-handed pitcher Tyler Switalski became the fourth pitcher from last season's WVU team to be chosen in the draft when the southpaw was selected by the San Francisco Giants with the 478th overall pick during the 16th round. Source: https://wvmetronews.com/2024/07/16/switalski-selec... |
| 7/16/24 | JJ Wetherholt ready to be a Cardinal after a historic night for WVU. JJ Wetherholt made history on Sunday night, being the highest-drafted player in WVU Baseball history as the St. Louis Cardinals selected him with the seventh overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft. For the first time since 1998, the Cardinals held a pick within the first ten picks of the draft. Wetherholt made sure he showed love to the people at WVU for making him the player he is today. Source: https://westvirginia.rivals.com/news/jj-wetherholt... |
| 7/16/24 | JJ Wetherholt selected by Cardinals in first round of MLB draft. Jul. 16—Staff Report JJ Wetherholt didn't go to the Cleveland Guardians or Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft on Sunday. But the shortstop was selected in the opening round. Wetherholt, who went to Mars Area High School near Pittsburgh and later West Virginia University, was picked by the St. Louis Cardinals with the seventh overall pick. Wetherholt has ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/jj-wetherholt-selected-ca... |
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