Yohel Pozo St Louis Cardinals Signed Practice Used Rawlings Official Major League Baseball

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Yohel Pozo is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher, first baseman and designated hitter in the St Louis Cardinals organization. He has previously played for the Oakland Athletics and Texas Rangers, for whom he debuted with in 2021.

Pozo played for Venezuela in the 2009 Little League World Series. Pozo signed as an international free agent with the Texas Rangers on August 17th, 2013, for a $100,000 signing bonus. Pozo spent the 2014 and 2015 seasons with the DSL Rangers of the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League; hitting .273/.329/.333 with 29 RBI in 2014, and .272/.335/.354 with one home run and 24 RBI in 2015. He spent the 2016 season with the Arizona League Rangers of the Rookie-level Arizona League, hitting .343/.382/.448 with one home run and 22 RBI.

Pozo split the 2017 season between the Spokane Indians of the Low–A Northwest League and the Hickory Crawdads of the Single–A South Atlantic League, hitting a combined .323/.351/.478 with four home runs and 25 RBI. Pozo spent the 2018 season back with Hickory, hitting .264/.312/.411 with 10 home runs and 49 RBI. His 2019 season was spent with the Down East Wood Ducks of the High–A Carolina League, where he hit .246/.274/.357 with nine home runs and 43 RBI.

Pozo did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He became a free agent on November 2, 2020. On November 17th, 2020, Pozo signed a minor league contract with the San Diego Padres organization. Pozo returned to Texas, when on December 10, he was selected by the Rangers in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft.

Pozo spent the 2021 minor league season with the Round Rock Express of the Triple-A West, hitting .337/.352/.622 with 23 home runs and 74 RBI over 77 games. On August 13th, 2021, Texas selected his contract and promoted him to the active roster. That night versus the Oakland Athletics, he made his major league debut. In his debut, recorded his first career hit off Cole Irvin, and his first MLB home run off Sergio Romo. Over 21 games for Texas in 2021, Pozo hit .284/.312/.378 with one home run and nine RBI.

On December 13th, 2022, Pozo signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Oakland Athletics. He re-signed a minor league contract on November 11, 2023. In 2024 with the Las Vegas Aviators, Pozo had another tremendous season hitting .324 with 15 HR’s and 54 RBI’s for an .873 OPS.

On November 13th, 2024, Pozo signed a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves. However he was released by the organization two days later. On January 23, 2025, Pozo signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. Following an injury to Iván Herrera, Pozo was added to St. Louis’ active roster on April 7th. That evening, Pozo played in his 1st game against the Pittsburgh Pirates and went 1-4 with a Homerun for the Cardinals.

The featured official Rawlings Major League Baseball was signed by St Louis Cardinals catcher Yohel Pozo in black. This Baseball was practice used when he was a member of the Oakland Athletics organization. The Baseball was obtained directly from Yohel Pozo!!!