Idon't want to write this column.

I've been misled too many times. Alex Reyes. Dylan Carlson. Jordan Walker. Why won't this guy be any diff erent?

But years after gushing from this keyboard about previous top Cardinals prospects, here I am, enamored again. For months, really, I've been able to picture this player at Busch Stadium.

And on Sunday afternoon, as the Cardinals readied at Wrigley Field for their last game of 2025, probable 2026 rookie JJ Wetherholt visited Busch for the first time.

The next time the Cardinals play at Busch Stadium, Wetherholt could very well be in the lineup.

"(Busch Stadium) is pretty cool," Wetherholt told the Post-Dispatch, while he sat in the Cardinals' home dugout. "I've never been here before, so just to be able to actually see the stadium, like, I di

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