Named International League Most Valuable Player, IL Postseason All-Star, All-MiLB First Team and Baseball America Minor League All-Star...Earned Cardinals Minor League Player of the Month honors for April after leading the organization with nine home runs, .667 slugging pct., 1.105 OPS, 13 extra-base hits, 56 total bases and 21 walks...Led all Minor League hitters with a .720 slugging pct., 1.159 OPS, .385 isolated slugging pct. and 180 wRC+ (min. 350 plate appearances)...Ranked T-fourth in all of MiLB with a career-high 33 homers after leading MiLB as of his final Minor League game on 8/11; also finished the year with the most HR in the Cardinals minor league system...Led the Cardinals organization with a .334 (105-314) batting average and 98 RBI, while ranking second with a .440 on-base pct... Recorded the most RBI (98) in a single season by a Cardinals Minor Leaguer since Nick Stavinoha (109) and Matt Adams (101) in 2011...Reached base safely in each of his final 23 games with Memphis from 6/29-8/11, the longest such streak on the team...Had an extra-base hit in an International League-best 13 consecutive games with Memphis from 7/25-8/9, producing six doubles and eight home runs while batting .392 (20-51) in that span...Finished the season as the No. 23 ranked St. Louis prospect according to Baseball America after being unranked to begin the season...Made his Major League debut on 6/4 at Pittsburgh, going 2-for-4 and notched his first career hit on a single in his first MLB at-bat off of LHP Rich Hill...Reached base safely in 20 of his 23 starts for St. Louis.
2023
Named International League Most Valuable Player, IL Postseason All-Star, All-MiLB First Team and Baseball America Minor League All-Star...Earned Cardinals Minor League Player of the Month honors for April after leading the organization with nine home runs, .667 slugging pct., 1.105 OPS, 13 extra-base hits, 56 total bases and 21 walks...Led all Minor League hitters with a .720 slugging pct., 1.159 OPS, .385 isolated slugging pct. and 180 wRC+ (min. 350 plate appearances)...Ranked T-fourth in all of MiLB with a career-high 33 homers after leading MiLB as of his final Minor League game on 8/11; also finished the year with the most HR in the Cardinals Minor League system...Led the Cardinals organization with a .334 (105-314) batting average and 98 RBI, while ranking second with a .440 on-base pct...Recorded the most RBI (98) in a single season by a Cardinals Minor Leaguer since Nick Stavinoha (109) and Matt Adams (101) in 2011...Reached base safely in each of his final 23 games with Memphis from 6/29-8/11, the longest such streak on the team...Had an extra-base hit in an International League-best 13 consecutive games with Memphis from 7/25-8/9, producing six doubles and eight home runs while batting .392 (20-51) in that span...Finished the season as the No. 23 ranked St. Louis prospect according to Baseball America after being unranked to begin the season...Made his Major League debut on 6/4 at Pittsburgh, going 2-for-4 and notched his first career hit on a single in his first MLB at-bat off of LHP Rich Hill...Reached base safely in 20 of his 23 starts for St. Louis.
2022
Played his entire season in Memphis (AAA), setting career highs and leading the Redbirds in games played (124), plate appearances (513), and at-bats (464)...Finished among Cardinals Minor League leaders in games (second), at-bats (third), home runs (21, T-2nd), RBI (66, sixth), and total bases (183, sixth)...Hit safely in 79 games, with 24 multi-hit efforts...Homered in 21 different games (no multi-homer efforts)...Batted .291/.330/.524 (30-103) with a .854 OPS in 28 day games...Hit .263/.417/.438 (36-137) with a .855 OPS ahead in the count, but .183/.185/.325 (31-169) with a .510 OPS behind in the count...Appeared defensively in 118 games at first base and six games as designated hitter...Went 3-for-5 with a two-run homer and five RBI on 8/14 vs. Indianapolis. Marked season-high in RBI and tied a season best in hits.
2021
Played 91 of 93 total games with Springfield (AA), finishing the regular season playing two September games at Memphis while making his Triple-A debut... Set career highs while finishing among Cardinals minor league leaders in home runs (26, 2nd), RBI (70, 4th), total bases (187, 4th), slugging pct. (.530, 4th), and OPS (.854, 6th)... His 26 home runs at Springfield was the 4th-highest single-season total in franchise history behind Matt Adams (32 in 2011), Xavier Scruggs (29 in 2013), and Colby Rasmus (29 in 2007)... Among all Double-A players, ranked 4th in homers and slugging pct. and 8th in RBI (68)...Appeared defensively in 86 games at first base and seven games as the designated hitter...Missed nearly the entire month of August due to a COVID19 outbreak on the Springfield roster.
2020
Did not play due to COVID protocols canceling the 2020 Minor League season...Selected to attend his first Major League Spring Training as a non-roster invitee after appearing in two games out of minor league camp in 2019.
