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“Dominican RHP Leonil De Le\u00f3n officially signed with the St. Louis Cardinals today. Bonus deal: $400,000,” Romero wrote in a post to X on Wednesday. “De Le\u00f3n impressed many teams starting in November in Miami. He reaches 93\u201396 mph with his fastball and shows significant upside. He trained with Miami Miracles.”<\/p>\n
De Leon has a lot of potential on the mound. He’s still a teenager, but his fastball has already been up in the mid 90s despite not being the biggest guy in the world. He still has plenty of opportunity to fill out his frame over the next few years. If he can fill out his frame the right way, the Cardinals could have a potential star on their hands.<\/p>\n
There’s a long way to go before the Cardinals ever see De Leon in Double-A, Triple-A, or the big leagues, but it’s still exciting to finally sign highly touted prospects like the righty.<\/p>\n
The future is bright in St. Louis. De Leon is going to join a strong and improving farm system in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Cardinals opted for a rebuild this offseason, which was led by a slew of big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-671208","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","12":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116371839327850540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671208","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=671208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}