{"id":522715,"date":"2026-01-16T02:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522715\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:16:13","slug":"st-louis-cardinals-sign-12-free-agents-from-the-dominican-republic-and-venezuela-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522715\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals Sign 12 Free Agents from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s the list of who the Cardinals signed today:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jordan Beltran RHP R\/R 6\u20190\u201d 170 &#8211; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fplayer%2Fcarlos-carrion-837618\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Carrion<\/a> SS S\/R 6\u201d0\u201d 160 &#8211; Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic<br \/>Roberth Castillo INF S\/R 5\u20199\u201d 160 &#8211; Valencia, Venezuela<br \/>Luis Estrella OF R\/R 6\u20191\u201d 230 &#8211; Santiago, Dominican Republic<br \/>Jhon Franganten OF R\/R 6\u20192\u201d 205 &#8211; Higuey, Dominican Republic<br \/>Emilio Jimenez LHP L\/L 6\u20197\u201d 190 &#8211; Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic<br \/>Emanuel Luna CF R\/R 6\u20191\u201d 205 &#8211; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<br \/>Javier Martinez RHP R\/R 6\u20191\u201d 186 &#8211; San Jose de Barlovento, Venezuela<br \/>Rafeli Moronta RHP R\/R 6\u20193\u201d 207 &#8211; Montecristi, Dominican Republic<br \/>Sebastian Rojas C R\/R 5\u201911\u201d 195 &#8211; Isla Margarita, Venezuela<br \/>Misael Sanchez OF R\/R 5\u201911\u201d 190 &#8211; Valencia, Venezuela<br \/>Christopher Vargas OF R\/R 6\u20191\u201d 200 &#8211; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The real standout is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/player\/emanuel-luna-836587\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emanuel Luna<\/a> who is a top 10 international outfield prospect according to <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Fst-louis-cardinals-2026-international-signings\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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","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":522716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,6213,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-522715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis-cardinals-news","12":"tag-st-louis","13":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","14":"tag-stlouis","15":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115902374931026736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522715","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=522715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}