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Players
David Banuelos
David Clemente Banuelos (born October 1, 1996) is an American
professional baseball
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catcher
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in the
Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Banuelos attended
Damien High School in
La Verne, California, graduating in 2014.
[ As a senior, he batted .395 with four home runs and 24 RBIs. Undrafted out of high school in the ]2014 MLB draft
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, he enrolled at California State University, Long Beach
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, and played college baseball
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for the Long Beach State Dirtbags. He became the Dirtbags' starting catcher
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as a sophomore in 2016. During the summer of 2016, he played collegiate summer baseball
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for the Bellingham Bells of the West Coast League
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. In 2017, he batted .289 with seven home runs and 29 RBIs and was named a First-Team All-America
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n by ''Baseball America
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'' and one of three finalists for the Johnny Bench Award
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.
The Seattle Mariners
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selected Banuelos in the fifth round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft
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. He signed with the Mariners, receiving a $300,000 signing bonus
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, and made his professional debut with the Everett AquaSox
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, where he spent his first professional season, posting a .236 batting average with four home runs and 26 RBIs in 36 games.
On December 6, 2017, in an attempt to sign Shohei Ohtani during the 2017–18 offseason, the Mariners traded Banuelos to the Minnesota Twins
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for $1 million in international signing bonus money. He spent the 2018 season with the Cedar Rapids Kernels, batting .220 with two home runs and 22 RBIs in 73 games.
Banuelos begin 2019 with Cedar Rapids before being promoted to the Fort Myers Miracle in May. Over 63 games, he slashed .177/.232/.263 with two home runs and twenty RBIs. He did not play a minor league game in 2020 since the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Matt Canterino
Matthew James Canterino (born December 14, 1997) is an American professional baseball
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pitcher
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Canterino grew up in Southlake, Texas
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and attended Carroll Senior High School
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. He was named the District 7-6A Pitcher of the Year as a senior after posting 7-1 record with 57 strikeouts and an 0.64 ERA.
Canterino played college baseball for the Rice Owls, where he was a starting pitcher for three seasons. He was named first team All-Conference USA
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after going 7-5 with 3.06 ERA and 116 strikeouts against 22 walks in 94 innings. As a junior, he went 6-5 with a 2.81 ERA and 121 strikeouts in 99.1 innings pitched and was named the Conference USA Pitcher of the Year in addition to repeating as a first team all-conference selection. In 2018, he played collegiate summer baseball
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with the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League
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, and was named a league all-star.
Canterino was selected in the 2nd round of the 2019 MLB draft
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by the Minnesota Twins
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. After signing with the team, he was initially assigned to the Gulf Coast League Twins before being promoted to the Class-A Cedar Rapids Kernels of the Midwest League
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. He did not play a minor league game in 2020 since the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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. He pitched only 23 innings in 2021 due to injury.
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Keoni Cavaco
Keoni Kealakekua Cavaco (born June 2, 2001) is an American professional baseball
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shortstop
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Cavaco attended Eastlake High School in Chula Vista, California
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. In 2019, his senior year, he hit .433 with eight home runs and 16 steals along with pitching to a 0.67 ERA. He committed to play college baseball
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at San Diego State University.
Cavaco was drafted by the Minnesota Twins
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in the first round with the 13th overall selection of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft
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. He signed for $4.05 million. After signing, he was assigned to the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Twins with whom he spent all of his first professional season. Over 25 games, he hit .172 with one home run and six RBIs. He did not play a minor league game in 2020 since the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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. For the 2021 season, he was assigned to the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
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of the Low-A Southeast, slashing .233/.296/.301 with two home runs and 24 RBIs over sixty games. He returned to Fort Myers for the 2022 season. Over 99 games, he hit .231 with 11 home runs and 59 RBIs.
David Festa
David Festa (born March 8, 2000) is an American professional baseball
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pitcher
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Festa Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey and played college baseball
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at Seton Hall University
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. He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins
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in the 13th round of the 2021 Major League Baseball Draft
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.
Festa spent his first professional season with the Florida Complex League Twins
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and Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
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. He started 2022 with Fort Myers before being promoted to the Cedar Rapids Kernels.
Brent Headrick
Brent Wayne Headrick (born December 17, 1997) is an American professional baseball
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pitcher
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Headrick played college baseball
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at Illinois State University. He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins
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in the ninth round of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft
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.
The Twins added Headrick to their 40-man roster after the 2022 season.
Michael Helman
Michael James Helman (born May 23, 1996) is an American professional baseball
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infielder
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and outfielder
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Helman attended Pius X High School in Lincoln, Nebraska
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where he played baseball
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and basketball
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. After graduating in 2015, he played two years of college baseball
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at Hutchinson Community College. As a sophomore in 2017, he batted .487 with 111 hits, 17 home runs, and 73 RBIs over sixty games and was named National Junior College Player of the Year. He transferred to Texas A&M University
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for the 2018 season where he started 62 games and hit .369 with six home runs, 36 RBIs, and 12 stolen bases. After the season, he was selected by the Minnesota Twins
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in the 11th round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft
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.
Helmand signed with the Twins and split his first professional season between the Elizabethton Twins
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and Cedar Rapids Kernels, batting .361 with four home runs over 39 games between the two teams. He spent the 2019 season with the Fort Myers Miracle where he hit .197 over 82 games, missing the end of the season after breaking his arm. He did not play a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season. Helman returned to Cedar Rapids for the 2021 season and batted .246 with 19 home runs, 57 RBIs, and 21 stolen bases over 111 games. He opened the 2022 season with the Wichita Wind Surge before he was promoted to the St. Paul Saints
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. Over 135 games between the two clubs, he slashed
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Helman's cousin, Joel Makovicka
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, played in the NFL
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.
Texas A&M Aggies bio
Will Holland
William Christopher Holland (born April 18, 1998) is an American professional baseball
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shortstop
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Holland graduated from Collins Hill High School
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in Suwanee, Georgia. As a senior, he hit .436 with two home runs and 13 stolen bases. Undrafted out of high school in the 2016 Major League Baseball draft
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, he enrolled at Auburn University
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to play college baseball
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for the Auburn Tigers
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.
As a freshman at Auburn in 2017, Holland batted .209 with three home runs and 18 RBIs in 45 games. He was named the SEC Freshman of the Week for the week of March 13–19 after going 6 for 15 at the plate, hitting one home run with four RBIs and three runs scored. He played in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League that summer. In 2018, as a sophomore, Holland had a breakout year in which he slashed
''Slashed'' is a low budget independent horror film, financed and directed by Ash and written by Jed Shepherd. .313/.406/.530 with 12 home runs and 52 RBIs in 66 games. He was named to the All-SEC Second Team and to the ABCA All-South Region Team. After the season, he played in the Cape Cod Baseball League
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for the Hyannis Harbor Hawks along with playing for the USA Baseball
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Collegiate National Team. Prior to the 2019 season, Holland was named a preseason All-American by multiple outlets including Perfect Game and D1Baseball.com. He struggled his junior year, finishing the season batting .246 with nine home runs and 35 RBIs over 64 games.
Holland was selected by the Minnesota Twins
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in the fifth round of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft
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, and he signed for $575,000. He made his professional debut with the Elizabethton Twins
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of the Rookie-level Appalachian League
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, batting .192 with seven home runs, 16 RBIs, and eight stolen bases over 36 games. He did not play a minor league game in 2020 since the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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. For the 2021 season, Holland was assigned to the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
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of the Low-A Southeast, slashing .214/.336/.401 with ten home runs, 27 RBIs, and 19 stolen bases over 76 games. He was assigned to the Cedar Rapids Kernels of the High-A
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Midwest League
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to begin the 2022 season. In early August, he was promoted to the Wichita Wind Surge of the Double-A Texas League
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. Over 116 games between the two teams, he slashed .227/.339/.366 with nine home runs, 49 RBIs, and 32 stolen bases.
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Edouard Julien
Edouard Julien (born April 30, 1999) is a Canadian professional baseball
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infielder
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Julien was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies
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in the 37th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball Draft
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out of Cardinal-Roy Secondary School in Ancienne-Lorette
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, Quebec
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, Canada
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. He did not sign with the Phillies and played college baseball
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at Auburn University
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. In 2018, he played collegiate summer baseball
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with the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League
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, and returned to the league in 2019 with the Hyannis Harbor Hawks. He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins
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in the 18th round of the 2019 MLB Draft
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and signed. In the Summer of 2019, he played for the Canada national baseball team at the 2019 Pan American Games
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. During the games, he suffered an injury which required him to get Tommy John Surgery
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.
Because of the surgery and the Covid-19 pandemic
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, Julien didn't make his professional debut until 2021 with the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
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. During the season he was promoted to the Cedar Rapids Kernels. He started 2022 with the Wichita Wind Surge.
He played in the 2022 Arizona Fall League, where he batted .365/.535/.683, and led the league in runs (21) and walks (20).
Marco Raya
Marco Antonio Raya (born August 7, 2002) is an American professional baseball
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pitcher
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Raya attended United South High School
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in Laredo, Texas
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, where he played baseball. He committed to play college baseball
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at Texas Tech
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. He was selected by the Minnesota Twins
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in the fourth round with the 128th overall selection of the 2020 Major League Baseball draft
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. He signed with the team for $410,000.
Raya did not play a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season, and did not play in 2021 due to lingering shoulder issues. Raya made his professional debut in 2022 with the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
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. He missed a brief period during the season after getting his wisdom teeth removed. Over 19 games (17 starts) with Fort Myers, he went 3-2 with a 3.05 ERA and 76 strikeouts over 65 innings.
Tanner Schobel
Tanner Schobel (born June 4, 2001) is an American baseball
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shortstop
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who plays in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Schobel grew up in Williamsburg, Virginia
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and attended Walsingham Academy
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. He began playing for the school's varsity baseball team in the eighth grade. Schobel played summer collegiate baseball
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after graduating high school for the Peninsula Pilots of the Coastal Plain League.
Schobel started all 52 of Virginia Tech's games during his freshman season and batted .279 with seven home runs, ten doubles, 33 RBIs, and 36 runs scored. After the 2021 season he played for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League
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. As a sophomore, Schobel hit .362 with 19 home runs and 74 RBIs.
Schobel was selected in the Competitive Balance section of the second round of the 2022 Major League Baseball draft
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.
Virginia Tech Hokies bio
Austin Schulfer
Austin Schulfer (born December 22, 1995) is an American professional baseball
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pitcher
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Schulfer played college baseball
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for the Milwaukee Panthers
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for four seasons. As a senior, he went 6-5 with a 2.96 ERA in 14 starts.
Schulfer was selected in the 19th round of the 2018 MLB draft
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by the Minnesota Twins
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. After signing with the team, he was assigned to the Elizabethton Twins
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of the Rookie-level Appalachian League
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, where he went 3-0 with a 1.58 ERA in 11 appearances with seven starts. Schulfer spent the 2019 season with the Class-A Cedar Rapids Kernels of the Midwest League
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and went 7-6 with a 3.96 ERA and 124 strikeouts in innings pitched. He did not play a minor league game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
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. Schulfer played for the Double-A Wichita Wind Surge in 2021 and had a 6-8 record with a 4.34 ERA in 24 starts. He returned to Wichita at the beginning of the 2022 season and was moved to a role as a relief pitcher. He made 15 appearances and had a 0.39 ERA before earning a promotion to the Triple-A St. Paul Saints
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.
Milwaukee Panthers bio
Yunior Severino
Yunior Severino (born October 3, 1999) is a Dominican baseball
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infielder
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Standard arrangement of positions
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Severino originally signed with the Atlanta Braves
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as an international free agent in July 2016. He played his first professional season in 2017 with the Dominican Summer League Braves and Gulf Coast Braves. After the season, he was declared a free agent after the Braves were penalized for violations in the international free agent market. Shortly after, he signed with the Minnesota Twins
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.
In his first year with the Twins in 2018, Severino played with the Elizabethton Twins
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. He played for the Gulf Coast Twins
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and Cedar Rapids Kernels in 2019. He did not play for a team in 2020 due to the Minor League Baseball season being cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic
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. Severino returned in 2021 to play for the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
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and Cedar Rapids. He played 2022 with Cedar Rapids and Wichita Wind Surge.
Evan Sisk
Samuel Evan Sisk (born April 23, 1997) is an American professional baseball
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pitcher
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in the Minnesota Twins
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organization.
Sisk attended Lewisville High School
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in Richburg, South Carolina
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and played college baseball
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at the College of Charleston. As a junior in 2018, he went 10-3 with a 2.96 ERA over innings. After his junior season, he was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 16th round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft
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.
Sisk signed with the Cardinals and made his professional debut with the Johnson City Cardinals, posting a 1.76 ERA over innings. He spent the 2019 season with the Peoria Chiefs
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where he went 3-6 with a 3.25 ERA over 61 innings pitched in relief. He did not play a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season. He opened the 2021 season with Peoria and was promoted to the Springfield Cardinals during the season.
On July 30, 2021, the Cardinals traded Sisk and John Gant
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to the Minnesota Twins
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in exchange for J.A. Happ and cash. He was assigned to the Wichita Wind Surge where he finished the season. Over 39 relief appearances between Peoria, Springfield and Wichita, he went 3-1 with a 3.91 ERA and 69 strikeouts over 53 innings. After the season, he played in the Arizona Fall League for the Scottsdale Scorpions
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. He opened the 2022 season with Wichita and was promoted to the St. Paul Saints
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in mid-June. Over fifty relief appearances between the two teams, he went 5-1 with a 1.57 ERA and 76 strikeouts over 63 innings.
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