José Fermín #15

Was switched from uniform No. 35 to No. 15 midway through the 2024 Spring Training season when the Cardinals signed Brandon Crawford...Shares the same birthplace as former Cardinal Carlos Martínez, the late Oscar Taveras and Victor Marte...Took English classes in school while living in the Dominican Republic...Was aspiring to become an engineer, but was signed out of the Amaurys Nina Academy in East Santo Domingo, at 16 years old by Cleveland...Resides in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.

2025

Batted an MLB career-high .283 (17-for-60) across 30 games played for St. Louis. Reached base safely in 12 of his 15 games started, while playing second base (15 games), third base (five) and left field (four), along with his first MLB career appearance in right field, a start on July 2 at Pittsburgh...Completed a career-high four stints with the Cardinals. Made his season debut June 25 vs. the Chicago Cubs and had three additional promotions to the big-league club between Aug. 18 and Sept. 17. Reached base safely in six of seven games for St. Louis from Sept. 6-22 during a stretch that spanned two stints with the Cardinals, going 8-for-22 (.364) with three doubles, six RBI and a .981 OPS in that span, including a career-high, three-RBI performance Sept. 21 vs. Milwaukee that featured a two-run double and a bases-loaded walk in a 5-1 win...Notched a hit in each of his first five games with the Cardinals from June 25-July 2 to extend his MLB career-high hitting streak to seven games, which included his final two games of 2024 from Sept. 26-29...Swatted his first career MLB home run on July 13 vs. Atlanta. Drilled a go-ahead, two-run blast off of Jesse Chavez to break a 3-3 tie in the sixth inning after two rain delays within the first five innings that totaled four hours, two minutes. St. Louis held on to win the game, 5-4. Became the first Cardinals player to hit what proved to be a game-winning home run as their first career dinger since Pedro Pagés on June 14, 2024 in the eighth inning at the Chicago Cubs, the first to do so at home since Nolan Gorman in the first inning of an 8-3 win May 28, 2022 vs. Milwaukee and the first to do so at home in the sixth inning or later since Carlos Martínez hit a sixth-inning homer on May 2, 2018 vs. the Chicago White Sox...Batted a team-high .316 (12-for-38) among Cardinals players with at least 40 plate appearances in road games, including four of his five doubles. Reached base safely in eight of his nine road starts for St. Louis with a .382 On-base percentage and .816 OPS in those contests. Batted .317 (39-for-123) in home games with Triple-A Memphis...Compiled a 31-game on-base streak from April 13-May 31 with Triple-A Memphis that was the ninth longest in the International League in 2025 and the longest by a Memphis player since Colby Rasmus produced a 36-game streak in 2008. Led the IL with a .471 on-base percentage and ranked second with a .354 batting average (40-for-115) during his streak. Also led all Cardinals Minor Leaguers in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage (.566), OPS (1.037), doubles (15), and extra-base hits (18) in that span...Scored at least one run in eight straight games for Triple-A Memphis from April 29-May 10, tying Jose Barrero for the longest such streak on the team. Led the club with 11 runs scored (T-5th in International League), a .475 on-base percentage (5th in IL), five doubles (T-2nd in IL) and three stolen bases during the streak with a 1.093 OPS that ranked eighth in the league...Ranked fifth among all MLB players with a 95.2% zone-contact rate (min. 50 plate appearances), which measures contact made on pitches inside the strike zone...Ripped a career-high 28 doubles combined between Triple-A Memphis (23) and St. Louis (five), and his 23 two-baggers in the Minors were T-3rd among St. Louis farmhands...Was hit by nine pitches while with Triple-A Memphis (one with STL), which tied César Prieto for the most on the team. Was drilled six times in 2024, and his 15 HBP from 2024-25 are also tied with Prieto for the most on the team...Named an International League Postseason All-Star after hitting .300 (72-for-237) with a .913 OPS in 65 games for Triple-A Memphis. Was also named the International League Player of the Week for June 16-22 after he led the league with a .550 batting average (11-for-20), 1.050 slugging percentage, 1.633 OPS and was tied for first with 11 hits and six extra-base hits for the week.

2024

Began the season in Memphis (AAA), but was recalled on April 24 and two more times before finishing the season on the St. Louis roster appearing in 45 Major League games...Was co-leading the Redbirds with four home runs at the time of his first recall on April 24...Started games at second base (8) and third base (5) while making one appearance in left field vs. COL (6/8). Started two games as the designated hitter...Batted .250 (6-for-24) with a triple and three RBI in two-out situations...Hit right-handed pitchers at a .226 clip (7-for-31, four RBI) and .100 (4-for-40) vs. left-handed pitchers...Scored a season-high two runs off the bench vs. MIL (8/21). Entered defensively after a Luken Baker pinch-hit home run and was on base when Nolan Arenado hit a walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning...Was flawless in 37 defensive chances...Batted .311 at Memphis with 13 doubles, eight home runs and 18 stolen bases in 20 attempts. Ran off a .424 on-base percentage and a .924 OPS, highest among all Redbirds with 60 or more games...Had a 34:22 walk to strikeout ratio at Memphis.

2023

Played his first season as a member of the Cardinals organization...Was a Spring Training Major League invite but was slowed by quadriceps strain and began the season in Memphis (AAA)...Played the majority of his games in St. Louis with 21, while appearing in 20 at Memphis and five games each in Palm Beach (A) and the Florida Complex League (R)...Was recalled from Memphis (AAA) on July 7 when Tommy Edman went on the injured list with right wrist inflammation...Made his Major League debut at CWS that night as a pinch-runner for Alec Burleson in the ninth inning...Started his first MLB game at second base two days later at CWS (7/9)...Went 0-for-3, but put down a perfect sacrifice bunt in the 10th inning as the Cardinals won in extras 4-3 heading into the All-Star break...Recorded his first Major League hit at CHI (7/21) with a bunt single off Justin Steele...Became the first Cardinal to bunt for his first career hit since RHP Britt Reames (9/23/2000 vs. CHI) and last Cardinals position player since OF Charlie Chant (9/1/1976 vs. CIN)...Finished the season on a three-game hit streak including a career-high three RBI game vs. Cincinnati in a 15-6 rout of the Reds on the second to last day of the season...Played for Gigantes del Cibao in the Dominican Winter League and led the circuit with a .577 on-base percentage while ranking second in batting (.432) to Ronny Mauricio (.441) and third in slugging percentage (.568) over 21 games.

2022

Played 90 games for Columbus (AAA), making 59 starts at third base and 27 starts at second base./.Hit four home runs in April, including his first career multi-home run game with two blasts at Indianapolis (4/20). ..His multi-home run game was part of a two-game explosion, going 7-for-9 with a double, two home runs and six RBI with five runs scored (4/20-21 at IND)...Scored a run in seven straight games (4/13-4/21)...Hit his first career grand slam at Omaha (5/4) off Daniel Mengden...Collected three games with two stolen bases, his second most in a single-season behind 2019 (four).