Former WVU Baseball Standout Makes Immediate Impact At Triple-A Level

For many people, the first day at a new job can be overwhelming and hard to conquer. However, that is not the case for WVU baseball legend JJ Wetherholt.

Just days after his promotion to the Triple-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, Wetherholt hit atripleand ahome runin his first game for the Memphis Redbirds on Wednesday. Not much could have went better for the former Mountaineers in his Triple-A debut.

Wetherholt got his first hit in Triple-A on a fly ball to the right fielder. Assisted by a 10th man -- the sun -- Wetherholt’s flyball was a usual routine out that turned into a three-base hit in the third inning. The former Mountaineer was able to glide into third with a stand-up triple as he recorded his first Triple-A hit.

Just a few innings later, Wetherholt blasted one to centerfield to record his first home run at the Triple-A level. Two outs in the fifth inning with no runners on, Wetherholt got ahold of a ball and sent it over the centerfield wall to make it an 8-3 game. The middle infielder finished the game going 2-4 with two extra-base hits, an RBI, and a run scored.

Getting hispromotion call on Monday, Wetherholt did not waste much time before collecting his first hit at the Triple-A level. Good news has come in a huge wave for the left-handed hitting prospect for the Cardinals. At the end of June,Wetherholt was included in the NL All-Star Futuresteam roster as a part of the Futures Game during the MLB All-Star Game.

It has been a great past few weeks for Wetherholt. Now, a couple of things are for certain: Wetherholt has shown he'll be a big-time player at the Triple-A level, and fans will be heavily rooting for the infielder to keep dominating the minor leagues like he did at the Double-A level.

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