Nathan Church #27

Graduated from El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif., The same high school that produced Nolan Arenado, Matt Chapman, and Paul Skenes...Won the 2017 CIF Division I Championship at El Toro...Played college baseball at UC-Irvine. Received an injury red-shirt his freshman year in 2019 and played the COVID shortened season in 2020. Named First Team All-Big West in 2021 and the Stanford All-Regional Team...Led NCAA Division 1 with eight triples in 2021 and ranked nationally in hits (100, third), doubles (24, fifth), total bases (158, seventh), runs (62, 24th) and RBI (61, 29th). Established the school record in single-season hits...Played for State College in the 2021 MLB Summer Draft League...Signed by Chris Rodriguez...Resides in Coto de Caza, Calif.

2024

Played a career-high 129 games while spending the entire season at Springfield (AA)...Led the Texas League in runs scored (81) and ranked in the Top 10 in RBI (66, seventh) and hits (129, third)...Cardinals Minor League Player of the Month for April, batting .349 (30-for-86) with three HR, 18 RBI and a .402 OBP...Texas League Player of the Week (4/15-21)...Posted a reverse split batting .302 against left-handed pitchers (32-for-106, two HR) and .258 (97-for-376, seven HR) vs. right-handed pitchers...Was successful in 24-of-28 stolen base attempts. Ranked 3rd among Springfield Cardinals in thefts...Homered in back-to-back games at Amarillo (4/19-20) and matched his career-high with four hits on 4/20...Finished the season hitting safely in his final 10 games of the season (14-for-39, .359), his season-long hitting streak.