Jon Jay
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Jonathan Henry Jay is an outfielder who plays for the St. Louis Cardinals
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in the second round (74th overall) of the 2006 MLB Draft. Jay played high school baseball at Christopher Columbus Senior High School in Miami, Florida, where he won the state championship his senior year.
Jay made his Major League debut on April 26, 2010.
On July 27, 2011 starting center fielder Colby Rasmus
was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays. Jay then took over for the recently traded Rasmus in center field.
In 2011, Jay played in more games than any other Cardinal.
St. Louis Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...
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Baseball career
He was drafted by the Cardinals out of the University of MiamiUniversity of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
in the second round (74th overall) of the 2006 MLB Draft. Jay played high school baseball at Christopher Columbus Senior High School in Miami, Florida, where he won the state championship his senior year.
Jay made his Major League debut on April 26, 2010.
On July 27, 2011 starting center fielder Colby Rasmus
Colby Rasmus
Colby Ryan Rasmus is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball.-Early years:...
was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays. Jay then took over for the recently traded Rasmus in center field.
In 2011, Jay played in more games than any other Cardinal.