JUPITER, Fla. • There are 32 active pitchers in Cardinals camp, and in the first live batting practice sessions on Tuesday, Luke Voit had the unenviable assignment of facing the guy everyone wanted to see … except a batter.
There's quite a lot of hype about Jordan Hicks, the triple-digit kid.
“I was like – 'Dang!'” the Cardinals' Voit said of the the fastballs he faced, both four-seamers and two-seamers. “I mean, it's heavy, man. It gets on you. It's got the spin rate too if you want that four seam. So I was impressed.