Rolen, the former St. Louis Cardinals third baseman, received 76.3 percent of the vote and was the only player elected in voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. McGriff was voted in previously by the Veterans Committee. Rolen, who was already a member of the Cardinals Hall of Fame, becomes the 47th player to wear the Birds on the Bat and be elected to the Hall of Fame.
As he pulled his hands back, lifted his left foot up, and readied to whip his bat forward, the sensation Paul DeJong felt this past season was not a swing he could trust. He hovered there more on the verge of a trust fall. Maybe this would be the time something caught him and stopped his tumble.
He is the first to play for Japan in the WBC who qualifies because of his ancestry. Japan announced its first 12 members earlier this month, including the Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani, San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish and Chicago Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki. Nootbaar said a few weeks ago at a Cardinals event in St. Louis that he does not speak Japanese but is working on it with his mother, Kumi Enokida.
No | Player | Pos |
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92 | P | |
22 | P | |
65 | P | |
56 | P | |
12 | P | |
43 | P | |
52 | P | |
32 | P | |
39 | P | |
48 | P | |
81 | P | |
70 | P | |
64 | P | |
53 | P | |
58 | P | |
59 | P | |
30 | P | |
18 | P | |
57 | P | |
34 | P | |
50 | P | |
61 | P | |
44 | P | |
60 | P |
No | Player | Pos |
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40 | C | |
47 | C | |
7 | C |
No | Player | Pos |
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28 | 3B | |
11 | SS | |
33 | 2B | |
19 | SS | |
46 | 1B | |
16 | 2B |
No | Player | Pos |
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84 | RF | |
3 | CF | |
36 | LF | |
21 | RF | |
27 | LF | |
13 | LF |