Jurrangelo Cijntje's season with Double-A Springfield hasn't been a smooth ride. But even when he's not at his best, the Cardinals' No. 4 prospect can still show flashes of pure brilliance.

Rainiel Rodriguez is one of four teenagers getting at-bats at Double-A right now. He looks like he belongs.

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Liam Doyle is starting to turn the corner.

The Cardinals' 2025 first-round pick delivered his strongest start as a pro on Saturday in Double-A Springfield’s 7-5 win over Corpus Christi at Route 66 Stadium, traversing five innings while racking up eight strikeouts -- both career

A pair of top Cardinals prospects helped drive High-A Peoria to a walk-off, 7-6 win over Wisconsin on Thursday at Dozer Park.

Yhoiker Fajardo, a piece of this offseason’s Willson Contreras trade, continued his strong start on the mound with five innings on one-run ball, striking out

Rainiel Rodriguez has staked his claim as MLB's top catching prospect, and on Sunday, he showed why he's also one of the top young sluggers in the Minors -- regardless of position.

MLB's No. 32 prospect homered as he tied a season high with three

PITTSBURGH -- JJ Wetherholt has been to PNC Park plenty of times, but he’d never had a night like Monday.

The Cardinals’ rookie second baseman hit a game-tying homer during a four-run ninth inning as the Redbirds rallied for a 4-2 victory in the opener of a four-game series.

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Cardinals outfielders not named Jordan Walker have a meager .212/.257/.311 slash line across 216 plate appearances this season. If the club desires reinforcements, it only has to look to Triple-A Memphis, where one of its best prospects is on pace for another big year.

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For the first time this season and the first time since joining the Cardinals’ organization as part of the Brendan Donovan trade, Jurrangelo Cijntje recorded an out from both sides of the mound.

The Cardinals’ No. 5 prospect and MLB Pipeline’s No. 81 delivered 4 2/3 strong

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After a bumpy beginning to his first full professional season, Liam Doyle figured something out on Sunday.

The Cardinals’ No. 2 prospect and MLB Pipeline’s No. 29 pitched four innings of one-run baseball, scattering just a pair of hits alongside five strikeouts and one walk. Double-A Springfield’s

The scoreboard at Appleton's Neuroscience Group Field looked more like a football score than a High-A contest.

And at the center of it all was Tai Peete, who hit for the cycle to snap out of an early-season slump to power High-A Peoria past Wisconsin, <a href="https://www.milb.com/gameday/chiefs-vs-timber-rattlers/2026/04/16/819502/final"

ST. LOUIS -- The moment wasn’t too big for Cardinals rookie JJ Wetherholt, and that was by design.

But it did finally hit him as he rounded the bases after hitting a two-run homer in the eighth inning.

“Going into that at-bat, I honestly don't even think I really knew the score,”

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A straight steal of home is one of the most exciting plays you'll see in baseball. A baserunner risking it all for a chance to score a surprise run.

Catch it once in a season from your favorite team and you might count yourself lucky. Twice in one game? Now that

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In 2025, “switch-pitcher Saturdays” were a Minor League phenomenon. Each week, Jurrangelo Cijntje would take the mound, leaving everyone guessing as to which hand would don the ambidextrous glove as a new opponent took the batter’s box.

This year, things look a little different for Cijntje. For one, his first start

With the Minor League season kicking off, here's where the Cardinals’ Top 30 Prospects are projected to start:

1. JJ Wetherholt (MLB Pipeline No. 5), INF -- St. Louis (MLB)
2. Liam Doyle (MLB No. 32), LHP -- Springfield (Double-A)
3. Rainiel Rodriguez (MLB

ST. LOUIS -- What makes the torrid start to Cardinals rookie JJ Wetherholt's big league career all the more impressive is the way that he called his shot on it.

No, he didn't point out toward Freese's Lawn before depositing a baseball onto the Busch Stadium berm in his

After an epic first impression on Opening Day, JJ Wetherholt outdid himself in the second game of his big league career.

The Cardinals’ top prospect walked off the Rays on Saturday at Busch Stadium after a wild ending to what had been a pitching duel for most

ST. LOUIS -- Though nothing magical happened in his first Major League at-bat, Cardinals' No. 1 prospect JJ Wetherholt didn’t wait long to give the sea of red something to cheer about in his big-league debut during Thursday's 9-7 Opening Day win at Busch Stadium.