{"id":522644,"date":"2026-01-16T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522644\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:24:15","slug":"st-louis-cardinals-sign-12-free-agents-from-the-dominican-republic-and-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522644\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals Sign 12 Free Agents from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">St. Louis Cardinals President of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom and his team had a busy day of of international signings that included 5 outfielders, 4 pitchers, 2 infielders and a catcher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s the list of who the Cardinals signed today:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jordan Beltran RHP R\/R 6\u20190\u201d 170 \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/carlos-carrion-837618\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Carlos Carrion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Carlos Carrion<\/a> SS S\/R 6\u201d0\u201d 160 \u2013 Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic<br \/>Roberth Castillo INF S\/R 5\u20199\u201d 160 \u2013 Valencia, Venezuela<br \/>Luis Estrella OF R\/R 6\u20191\u201d 230 \u2013 Santiago, Dominican Republic<br \/>Jhon Franganten OF R\/R 6\u20192\u201d 205 \u2013 Higuey, Dominican Republic<br \/>Emilio Jimenez LHP L\/L 6\u20197\u201d 190 \u2013 Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic<br \/>Emanuel Luna CF R\/R 6\u20191\u201d 205 \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<br \/>Javier Martinez RHP R\/R 6\u20191\u201d 186 \u2013 San Jose de Barlovento, Venezuela<br \/>Rafeli Moronta RHP R\/R 6\u20193\u201d 207 \u2013 Montecristi, Dominican Republic<br \/>Sebastian Rojas C R\/R 5\u201911\u201d 195 \u2013 Isla Margarita, Venezuela<br \/>Misael Sanchez OF R\/R 5\u201911\u201d 190 \u2013 Valencia, Venezuela<br \/>Christopher Vargas OF R\/R 6\u20191\u201d 200 \u2013 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The real standout is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/player\/emanuel-luna-836587\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Emanuel Luna;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Emanuel Luna<\/a> who is a top 10 international outfield prospect according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/st-louis-cardinals-2026-international-signings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MLB.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MLB.com<\/a>. He just celebrated his 17th birthday Thursday and is listed at #8 among the top 50 international prospects. He signed for a $2.3 million dollar bonus. Overall, the St. Louis Cardinals had $8,034,900 in international pool money which is one of the highest in the league. Carlos Carrion received a $1.1 million dollar bonus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/top-international-prospects-emanuel-luna-of?partnerId=web_video-playback-page_video-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:View Link;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">View Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals President of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom and his team had a busy day of of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,1888,4,1607,69361,69360,67,9346,8814],"class_list":["post-522644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-dominican-republic","tag-mlb","tag-santiago","tag-santo-domingo","tag-santo-domingo-oeste","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-valencia","tag-venezuela"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115902170221197758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}