Twitter continues to be an interesting as well as expanding source of baseball news. Many minor leaguers are not only establishing a public presence there, but some have even been actively begging for fan followers in apparent good-natured popularity contest with their peers.
Earlier this season, we first learned of the promotion of St. Louis Cardinals number one prospect Shelby Miller from Palm Beach to Springfield via a tweet from the player himself.
The trend continues as Tuesday night, Joe Kelly received congratulations from other players in the organization for his yet-to-be announced move up to Springfield from Palm Beach.
As more and more players join Twitter, you may be interested in following them, too. Here is a list of Cardinals major and minor leaguers, though likely far from complete. Their Twitter handles are listed first. The active links for many of the player names will take you to their stats page at Baseball-Reference.com.
St. Louis
DanielDescalso – Daniel Descalso
dfreese23 – David Freese
ESanchez52 – Eduardo Sanchez
jonjayU – Jon Jay
mattholliday7 – Matt Holliday
Memphis
kingchambers_8 – Adron Chambers
PJWalters33 – P.J. Walters
Springfield
ShelbyMiller19 – Shelby Miller
Ngreeny23 – Nick Greenwood
cswag8 – Chris Swauger
JermaineCurtis – Jermaine Curtis
MCReid42 – Chase Reid
Palm Beach
jkell005 – Joe Kelly
philipthebases – Phil Cerreto
Xavier_Scruggs – Xavier Scruggs
AlanAhmady – Alan Ahmady
sneakpeekatneek – Niko Vasquez
JordanSwagerty – Jordan Swagerty
Tyler_Lyons – Tyler Lyons
jesseLsimpson – Jesse Simpson
Quad Cities
codystanley21 – Cody Stanley
dannybibona – Daniel Bibona
Batavia
PlayPatt_22 – Jeremy Patton
Gwittels10 – Garrett Wittels
DannyMiranda40 – Danny Miranda
DrewBenes – Drew Benes
NickMartini26 – Nick Martini
Maness_43 – Seth Maness
Johnson City
s_ramos9 – Steven Ramos
TyrellJenkins14 – Tyrell Jenkins
DWashington52 – David Washington
Gulf Coast League
@theCordDodd_ – Corderious Dodd
On military duty
Cardinals15 – Mitchell Harris
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