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News Release: Cardinals Announce Opening Day Rosters for Full Season Minor League Affiliates

ST. LOUIS, MO, April 5, 2018– The St. Louis Cardinals announced today the 2018 Opening Day rosters for their four full-season minor league affiliate teams that begin play today.

The Memphis Redbirds will set out to defend their Pacific Coast League (AAA) title after posting a club-record 91 wins last season under first-year Manager Stubby Clapp. Palm Beach was named the 2017 Florida State League (A) co-champion along with Dunedin after Hurricane Irma cancelled the league’s championship series.

Cardinals’ affiliate clubs combined for 410 wins in 2017, ranking 2^nd to the New York Yankees in all of baseball.

Please see the attached Opening Day rosters for each of the Cardinals four full-season affiliates.

	Memphis	Springfield	Palm Beach	Peoria
SP	John Gant	Jake Woodford	Anthony Shew	Jake Walsh
	Dakota Hudson	Ryan Helsley	Evan Kruczynski	Johan Oviedo
	Austin Gomber	Conner Greene	Mike O’Reilly	Evan Guillory
	Jack Flaherty	Sam Tewes	Austin Warner	Alvaro Seijas
	Daniel Poncedeleon	Connor Jones	Ian Oxnevad	Kodi Whitley
			Junior Fernandez	Winston Nicacio

RP	John Brebbia	Estarlin Arias	Jesus Cruz	Fabian Blanco
	Sean Gilmartin	Landon Beck	Greg Holland	Bryan Dobzanski
	Derian Gonzalez	Brady Bowen	Will Latcham	Kevin Hamann
	Preston Guilmet	Tyler Bray	Yeison Medina	John Kilichowski
	Kevin Herget	Chris Ellis	Mitch Osnowitz	Cory Malcom
	Andrew Morales	Jacob Evans	Jacob Patterson	Levi Mavorhis
	Edward Mujica	Hector Mendoza	Ronnie Williams	Zach Prendergast
	Arturo Reyes	Ramon Santos	Jason Zgardowski	Thomas St. Clair

C	Carson Kelly	Andrew Knizner	Brian O’Keefe	Dennis Ortega
	Steven Baron	Jeremy Martinez	Jose Godoy	Julio Rodriguez

1B	Luke Voit	John Nogowski	Stefan Trosclair	Juan Yepez
	Rangel Ravelo	Chris Chinea	Ryan McCarvel

IF	Max Schrock	Darren Seferina	Andy Young	Irving Lopez
	Alex Mejia	Edmundo Sosa	Jose Martinez	Rayder Ascanio
	Wilfredo Tovar	Tommy Edman	Kramer Robertson	Taylor Bryant
	Patrick Wisdom	Ramon Urias	Evan Mendoza	Yariel Gonzalez
				Elehuris Montero

OF	Randy Arozarena	Graden Goetzman	Shane Billings	Dylan Carlson
	Adolis Garcia	Victor Roache	Johan Mieses	Bryce Denton
	Oscar Mercado	Thomas Spitz	Chase Pinder	Jonatan Machado
	Tyler O’Neill	Lane Thomas	J.B. Woodman	Nick Plummer

	Stubby Clapp (MGR)	Johnny Rodriguez (MGR)	Dann Bilardello (MGR)	Chris Swauger (MGR)
	Dernier Orozco (Pitching)	Darwin Marrero (Pitching)	Will Ohman (Pitching)	Cale Johnson (Pitching)
	Mark Budaska (Hitting)	Jobel Jimenez (Hitting)	Brandon Allen (Hitting)	Russ Chambliss (Hitting)
	Brian Burgamy (4th Coach)	Elijah Tupuola (4th Coach)	Craig Richmond (4th Coach)	Michael Rivera (4th Coach)
	Matt Corvo (Trainer)	Brent Neuharth ( Trainer)	Chris Whitman (Trainer)	Dan Martin (Trainer)
	Lance Thomason (Strength Coach)	Frank Whitkowski (Strength Coach)	Ross Hasegawa (Strength Coach)	Frank Spinelli (Strength Coach)