We have non-tendered RHP Jason Adam, 1B Samir Dueñez, RHP Andres Machado and OF Bubba Starling ahead of tonight’s deadline. All four players become free agents.
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Tom Zobrist has been pastor of the Liberty Bible Church in Eureka since 1988, nurturing those to whom he ministers and the operation from a storefront location to its own site to a soon-to-be shimmering expansion project now that will include 500-seat capacity.
Their son’s direction wasn’t going to change, either, when the Zobrists got a call suggesting Ben attend a tryout camp in nearby Brimfield.
It would cost $50, after all.
“Fifty dollars was a lot of money,” Cindi said. “It still is.”
Never mind that Ben was intrigued, if only for the chance to spend more time playing with his friends.
“ ‘I’m not paying for that,’ ” said his father, who grew up a Cardinals fan.
But he was OK with Ben using $50 of birthday money he’d gotten from his grandparents.
“ ‘Go ahead; it’s your money,’ ” Tom Zobrist remembered saying, smiling at the recollection it would be money misspent.
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Cindi remembers crying about it over lunch with him at a local Cracker Barrel, fretting that doing so would be stepping away from God’s plan and fearing “other influences” at a larger school.
But Tom told him that at age 19, he needed to decide for himself and asked what he thought God wanted for him.
“ ‘Well, I feel like I’m not done with baseball yet,’ ” he remembered Ben saying. “ ‘But I’m willing to do what you want me to do.’ ”
#STLCards have Mike Moustakas on radar. The difference this year: no draft choice attachment. Rival Brewers, Moose’s most recent team, among others with possible interest.
#STLCards have Mike Moustakas on radar. The difference this year: no draft choice attachment. Rival Brewers, Moose’s most recent team, among others with possible interest.
