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Dominion Post
30-06-2025
- Sport
- Dominion Post
J.J. Wetherholt selected for All-Star Futures Game
MORGANTOWN — J.J. Wetherholt has a date for this season's All-Star weekend. The former WVU baseball standout was named Monday to the National League roster for next month's MLB All-Star Futures Game. Currently the No. 1-ranked prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals, Wetherholt is batting .305 with five home runs, 27 RBIs and 13 stolen bases at Class AA Springfield this season. He leads Springfield with 61 hits and 41 walks. The Futures Game is scheduled for 4 p.m. on July 12 in Atlanta, and will be televised by the MLB Network. The game will be seven innings and the National League will be coached by former Atlanta Braves stars Chipper Jones and Marquis Grissom. Since being drafted No. 7 overall by the Cardinals last summer, Wetherholt has rocketed up the prospect rankings in Minor League Baseball. He is ranked the No. 16 overall prospect overall, making him the third highest-ranked prospect playing in the Futures Game this season behind San Diego's Leo De Vries (No. 3 overall) and Philadelphia's Andrew Painter (No. 5). In 86 career minor league games over two summers, Wetherholt has combined to hit .302 with seven home runs and 47 RBIs. An All-American at WVU, Wetherholt took college baseball by storm his sophomore season, in which he led the nation in hitting with a .449 batting average, while also hitting 16 home runs and driving in 60. He was named the Big 12 Player of the Year after that season. Injuries limited his senior season to just 36 games, but he still batted .331 with eight home runs and 30 RBIs to lead the Mountaineers to their first-ever appearance in the super regionals of the NCAA tournament. Following his junior season, Wetherholt became WVU's first-ever top 10 draft pick into professional baseball. The Futures Game will feature 50 of the top minor-league prospects. The National League is 3-1-1 since the format was changed to National League vs. American League prospects in 2019. The NL won last year's contest 6-1, at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Wetherholt leads Springfield past Travs 10-3
SPRINGFIELD, Mo–The Springfield Cardinals continued their Texas League North series with Arkansas Wednesday night. The Travs are the Double AA affiliate of the Seattle Mariners. Both the Cardinals and Travelers are tied for first in the north. And southpaw Ixan Henderson was on the hill, looking to go 2-0 on the season. He ends the first by striking out Bill Knight swinging. Henderson pitched five innings, gave up one run and struck out seven. Then in the third he gets defensive help from J.J. Wetherholt who charges the softly hit ball, and throws to first for the out. Scoreless in the bottom of the third, a man on for Wetherholt, and the Cardinals top prospect takes this deep to left center, his first Double AA homer, and it's 2-0 Springfield. One batter later, R.J. Yeager takes this deep to left, it's gone, a solo shot it's 3-0 Cardinals. The next batter is Dakota Harris, and he goes deep to left, that's back to back jacks, that makes it 4-0. J.J. Wetherholt was 3 for 4 with 4 RBI in the Cardinals 10-3 victory. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Springfield tops Amarillo, wins third straight
AMARILLO, Tex–The Springfield Cardinals continued their series in Amarillo Thursday night. And it's been a wild start for the baby birds who sit in a first place tie in the Texas League North with a 4-1 record. The Cardinals scored 16 runs on Tuesday, and ten runs Wednesday night to beat the Sod Poodles. Top St. Louis farmhand J.J. Wetherholt picked up his first double a hits and RBI's Wednesday night. And Thursday night it was Noah Mendlinger who gets things started, a single up the middle that scores both Chase Davis and Jeremy Rivas it's 2-0 Springfield. The Cards get more in the third, Jacob Buchberger takes this deep to left center, a two run homer, his first of the new season and it's 4-0 Springfield. The baby birds get more in the fifth, Dakota Harris singles to center and Leonardo Nernal scores it's 5-0. Springfield tried to get more, Buchberger grounds to third, the Soddies come home and get Harris at the plate, still 5-0. But Ramon Mendoza picks him up, with this single to left, Mendlinger scores to make it 6-0. And Springfield wins its third straight game 8-4. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
