JJ Wetherholt’s first spring training with the St. Louis Cardinals’ big-league club has come to an end. The Cardinals’ ...

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Mars and West Virginia product JJ (Jonathan David) Wetherholt was wearing a cowboy hat and snakeskin boots Sunday night when he was selected seventh overall by the St. Louis Cardinals in the MLB ...

Once the fans gathered at the fence had his attention and he was quickly at work signing his first autographs of his first big league camp, JJ Wetherholt fielded the question that will find him ...

Cancel anytime. St. Louis Cardinals infielder and 2024 first round draft pick J.J. Wetherholt ran participated in practice at spring training in Jupiter, Florida on Feb. 14, 2025. Video by Allie ...

The subjects of their work, David Freese and Ozzie Smith ... They both did a really nice job with that.” Wetherholt is less than a year removed from campus life at West Virginia, so his ...

Wetherholt went 2-for-3 with a three-run home run Sunday in Grapefruit League action versus the Astros. Making his spring training debut, Wetherholt had a bloop single in the fourth inning and ...

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 ...

After a Spencer Barnett single, Armani Guzman pinch-ran for Barnett and stole second base before Wetherholt smacked a double to the left field corner for the game-winning 11-10 lead. After David ...

"Starting slightly open from the left side before closing his stance with a leg raise, Wetherholt had some of the best bat-to-ball skills in his Draft class, running as high a contact rate as 89.7 ...

If Wetherholt needed any help locating things around the complex or understanding anything about the schedule in his first big league spring training, Liberatore, 25 years old, was willing to help.