Jordan Walker

Jordan Alexander Walker

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 6' 5", Weight 220 lb.
High School Decatur (GA) High School
Debut March 30, 2023

Born May 22, 2002 in Stone Mountain, GA USA

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Third baseman Jordan Walker was drafted in the 1st round, 21st overall, by the St. Louis Cardinals, in the 2020 amateur draft. He had to wait until the following year to begin his professional career, since the draft was held while the minor leagues were shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic. His career began with the Palm Beach Cardinals of the Low-A Southeast, where he hit .374 in 27 games. He was obviously too good for the level and was quickly promoted to the Peoria Chiefs of the High-A Central, where he played another 55 games, hitting .292. Overall in 82 games, his slash line was .317/.388/.548, with 25 doubles and 14 homers. He was named an organizational All-Star at the end of the season. In 2022, he moved up to the AA Texas League with the Springfield Cardinals. He continued to hit very well there and was named to the National League team for the 2022 Futures Game which was played at Dodger Stadium on July 16th. He finished the year at .306/.388/.510 in 119 games, with 31 doubles and 19 homers.

He was one of the main attractions for the Cardinals in spring training in 2023 as there was speculation that he could skip AAA altogether and open the season with the team - albeit not as a third baseman. Given the position was occupied at the major league level by Nolan Arenado for the foreseeable future, and because at 6' 5", Walker would be very tall for a third baseman, the Cardinals moved him to the outfield in the second half of the 2022 season, and that's where he was playing that spring. He helped his cause by displaying excellent power in camp, with 5 doubles and 3 homers in 18 games. On March 25th, the Cardinals announced that Walker had made the team and would be added to the 26-man roster for Opening Day. This could not help by remind the team's fans of one Albert Pujols, who had also jumped past AAA to make the team's opening day line-up back in 2001. He started in right field against the Toronto Blue Jays on March 30th, going 1 for 5 with an RBI in a 10-9 loss; at 20 years and 312 days, he was the youngest player to make his debut for the Cardinals since pitcher Rick Ankiel had done so at 20 years, 35 days on August 23, 1999. He hit his first career homer on April 5th against Michael Tonkin of the Atlanta Braves in a 5-2 loss. When his hitting streak to start his career reached nine games on April 9th, it put him in rare company, as only Eddie Murphy (who had hit safely in 12 straight to start his career in 1912) and the great Ted Williams (also with 9 in 1939), had done so before him at age 20 or younger. He was batting .353 at that point and made it ten straight games with another hit the next day, and tied Murphy on April 12th. Before that, he had also set a new team record for longest hitting streak from the start of a career, having passed Magneuris Sierra's 9 games in 2017 earlier. The streak ended with an ofer on April 13th. He slowed down markedly after that and before the month was over, on April 26th, he was sent down to AAA, a level he had skipped on his way to the bigs.

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