On Thursday night, hours after their 16-year-old son turned pro, the Seijas family cranked up the music, cooked up some pork, opened up the garage of their home in Venezuela, set up some tables and gave Cardinals executive Moises Rodriguez one more chance to do a little scouting.
While young Alvaro Seijas, the righthander the Cardinals signed that afternoon, danced with his aunts, Rodriguez eyed the uncles.
He met three, all of them tall and one standing above the others.
Those genes would help the nephew reach anticipated heights.
“That’s something you like to see, right?