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Real or not? Daniel Poncedeleon's debut best of the season

Three notes about Daniel Poncedeleon, who made his major league debut for the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night in Cincinnati:

  • 1. He already has a Hall of Fame name.

  • 2. He bounced between four colleges and was drafted four times over five years, finally signing with the Cardinals in 2014 as a ninth-round pick out of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a Division II school in Dayton Beach, Florida, that sounds like it should be producing engineers, not professional baseball players. (Poncedeleon is the first major leaguer from the school.