Devin Williams: MLB First Round Draft Pick? Analyst Say It's So

The Hazelwood West High School senior committed to play baseball at Mizzou, but he just may not make it there. Have you seen Williams pitch? Is he major league material?

Hazelwood West High School's Devin Williams is committed to play baseball at the University of Missouri, but he may never put on a Tigers jersey. Buzz is generating surrounding the possibility of him going pro. The 6'3'' 172 pound pitcher is projected to go in the first round of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft this year. Williams is 4-1 with a 0.70 ERA in six starts for the Hazelwood West Wildcats. MaxPreps ranks him #47 with its "Top 100 baseball seniors of the 2013 season." The sporting authority says the list is a whole lot of names that you are likely to see in the upcoming Major League Draft. Join Hazelwood Patch for more community news or join us on Facebook and Twitter. Baseball America has Williams going 44th in the first …

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Hazelwood Sports Complex Preps for MLB Pitch, Hit & Run Competition

Sign up a boy or girl you know that is a great baseball player online or at the Hazelwood Community Center. The competition is April 14 at 1 p.m.

If you know a little boy or girl that loves baseball as much as he or she loves to compete, Hazelwood's upcoming event may be ideal. The Scotts Major League Baseball Pitch, Hit & Run is making a stop in the City of Hazelwood Sunday, April 14. The tour will stop by the Hazelwood Sports Complex, located at 4622 Aubuchon Road at 1 p.m. This is a free event and there is no registration fee for children to participate. This is a Major League Baseball (MLB) skills event for boys and girls where participants have the opportunity to compete in four levels of competition including a team championship event. National Finals take place at the 2013 MLB All-Star Game. Register online at www.leaguelineup.com/hazelwoodbaseball. On the home page, look for…

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No Starting Position for Kyle McClellan, Out Again with Shoulder Injury

McClellan was scratched from a scheduled appearance against Seattle on Sunday, but plans to stick it out as a Ranger.

There have been a series of unfortunate events for non-roster right-hander Kyle McClellan in the past year as he has left the St. Louis Cardinals and joined the Texas Rangers' minor league team. McClellan was scheduled to pitch against Seattle on Sunday but is suffering from a strained latissimus muscle in the right shoulder, according to The Dallas Morning News Rangers blog. McClellan will require four weeks of recovery time before beginning a throwing program. The injury was announced four days after McClellan threw two scoreless innings against the Brewers on Tuesday. McClellan experienced discomfort during a bullpen session on Friday and went for an MRI test, which found no structural damage, according to the blog. McClellan has …

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Kyle McClellan to Pitch Against the Brewers Tuesday

McClellan may be ready to audition for the Ranger's fifth spot. Shoulder soreness has delayed him.

It seems Kyle McClellan may finally get a chance to prove his talent as the Texas Rangers have plans to have the non-roster right-hander pitch in a game Tuesday. According to a Dallas Morning News blog, the Rangers plan on having McClellan pitch Tuesday against Milwaukee Brewers. Washington said there is time for McClellan to make enough of an impression to make the major league club. McClellan can opt out of his contract March 22. Kyle McClellan has waited all spring while he recovered from a sore shoulder as other candidates for the fifth starter slot continually took to the mound in an effort to stake their claim to the job. The North County native and Hazelwood West Alum signed on with the Texas Rangers' minor league team in January, …

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Kyle McClellan's Shoulder Causing Problems in Texas

The Texas Rangers will give the North County native additional rest before he tries to throw in the bullpen again. McClellan had to end Sunday’s bullpen session early.

North County native and Hazelwood West Alum Kyle McClellan signed on with the Texas Rangers' minor league team in January, and it seemed his pitching health was on the rise. Early in February the non-roster right-hander was announced as a candidate for two spots on the Texas Rangers’ staff: fifth stater and long reliever. But it seems his shoulder and its injuries are still haunting him. Ron Matejko of ESPN Dallas reports that McClellan had to cut short Sunday’s bullpen session, but the right-hander seems optimistic that it’s a minor setback. “You know pain and you know if it’s something structural, but this is just one of the muscles,” McClellan told Matejko. “I can put my finger right on it and feel it.” (Get instant news updates. Like …

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Series Schedule for St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Nationals

When are the games scheduled for the National League Division Series?

So, the St. Louis Cardinals clawed their way into the "real" playoffs with a win on Friday against the Atlanta Braves. Now, they play a best-of-five series against the National League East leading Washington Nationals. The series starts in Busch Stadium on Sunday, at 2 p.m., and will be televised on TBS. The Redbirds play two at home before heading east for game three. Adam Wainwright is scheduled to take the ball for the Redbirds against the Nationals' Giovany A. Gonzalez. Here's the schedule for the series.  * If needed. Have you got a prediction? How will the Cards do against the Nationals? How many games do you expect this series to go?

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McClellan Says He Might Never Pitch for Cards Again

The Hazelwood West alum figures the team will non-tender him after his recent surgery left him on the disabled list for the remainder of the season.

Thanks in part to the injury and surgery that benched him for the rest of the baseball season, Kyle McClellan thinks he may have played his last game as a St. Louis Cardinal, according to a report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. McClellan will be arbitration-eligible for the third time this winter, and his $2.5 million dollar salary for this season was enough to make the Cardinals entertain offers for him last year. Going through the arbitration process again could mean that the Cards could pay more than $3 million next season for McClellan, and he told the Post he expects they’ll non-tender him. "I know how the process works. I know they're thinking about how to protect themselves," McClellan told the Post. “"I also know that if …

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Consumer Alert

Scammers Are Clogging Up the Cards' World Series Experience

The St. Louis BBB is warning fans who are traveling to Texas for the World Series about suspicious hotel offers.

Earlier in the week, the St. Louis Better Business Bureau warned Cardinal nation about World Series ticket scams. Now an alert is spreading about hotel ads targetting fans who may be scrambling to find accommodations in the Dallas area. The BBB said the ads are popping up on Craigslist. The alert A release from the BBB reads in part: Several ads for World Series hotel packages on a classified ad site claimed to offer tickets for a Rams-Cowboys game along with the hotel, a tip-off that the person who placed the ad may not be familiar with the teams in the World Series, the Cardinals and the Texas Rangers. Some ads are full of misspellings, which also can be a characteristic of fraudulent ads. “Sports fans may be anxious to get a hotel room …

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Watch the Game in Hazelwood: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Philadelphia Phillies in Game 3

The St. Louis Cardinals take on the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 3 of the National League Division Series this afternoon, will you be watching?

The St. Louis Cardinals take on the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 3 of the National League Division Series this afternoon, with the first pitch at 4:07 p.m. in Busch Stadium. Have you got a plan to watch the game?   St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz called the Cardinals a team with grit in his latest column about the team: “Philadelphia might be shocked, but not St. Louis. The Cardinals never were supposed to be here. They were done, gone, finished. They trailed Atlanta by 10.5 games in the NL wild card race on Aug. 24, then proceeded to destroy every piece of conventional wisdom.” Meanwhile, Philadelphia Daily News columnist Paul Hagen laments the format of a series in which “a bad bounce here, a bloop hit there can send …

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