Sprint Start Got St. Louis Cardinals’ Prospect Cesar Prieto To Majors
The post Sprint Start Got St. Louis Cardinals’ Prospect Cesar Prieto To Majors appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Cesar Prieto’s defection from Cuba was like a Hollywood movie scene. His journey through the minors to make his MLB debut with the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night was much more mundane. Prieto struck out as a pinch hitter against hard-throwing Tony Santillan of the Cincinnati Reds in his MLB debut. That’s not quite the storybook way he got his chance to do it. CINCINNATI: Cesar Prieto of the St. Louis Cardinals swings in his MLB debut as a pinch hitter in the 10th inning against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park on Aug. 29, 2025. (Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images) Getty Images He told his remarkable story to Rob Rains of STLSportsPage.com last March. The infielder was a young star with the Cuban National Team in 2021, playing in an Olympic qualifying tournament that May in West Palm Beach, FL. And he literally bolted down the street for freedom. “It was super hard to make that decision (to defect), but at the time I knew it was the right thing to do because I was doing it for something really good in my future,” Prieto told MLB.com via translator Kleininger Teran. “I feel lucky to have this opportunity to come to America and play baseball here and I want to make the most of it.” Every MLB team was aware of Prieto. Beginning at age 18 in the Cuban National Series in 2017, Prieto hit .365 in 247 games. His game was like that of current San Diego Padres star and three-time batting champion Luis Arraez. Prieto had incredible bat-to-ball skills, but not much power or speed: 17 homers and 24 stolen bases. At 5-foot-9 and a stocky 180 pounds (now 195), that was to be expected. In the field, he was a steady performer, mostly…
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Cesar Prieto’s defection from Cuba was like a Hollywood movie scene. His journey through the minors to make his MLB debut with the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night was much more mundane. Prieto struck out as a pinch hitter against hard-throwing Tony Santillan of the Cincinnati Reds in his MLB debut. That’s not quite the storybook way he got his chance to do it. CINCINNATI: Cesar Prieto of the St. Louis Cardinals swings in his MLB debut as a pinch hitter in the 10th inning against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park on Aug. 29, 2025. (Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images) Getty Images He told his remarkable story to Rob Rains of STLSportsPage.com last March. The infielder was a young star with the Cuban National Team in 2021, playing in an Olympic qualifying tournament that May in West Palm Beach, FL. And he literally bolted down the street for freedom. “It was super hard to make that decision (to defect), but at the time I knew it was the right thing to do because I was doing it for something really good in my future,” Prieto told MLB.com via translator Kleininger Teran. “I feel lucky to have this opportunity to come to America and play baseball here and I want to make the most of it.” Every MLB team was aware of Prieto. Beginning at age 18 in the Cuban National Series in 2017, Prieto hit .365 in 247 games. His game was like that of current San Diego Padres star and three-time batting champion Luis Arraez. Prieto had incredible bat-to-ball skills, but not much power or speed: 17 homers and 24 stolen bases. At 5-foot-9 and a stocky 180 pounds (now 195), that was to be expected. In the field, he was a steady performer, mostly…
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