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Luken Baker and Mateo Gil Are Your Newest, Very Different Cardinals

Depending on your website of choice, the difference in weight between the Cardinals third and fourth picks in the 2018 MLB Draft ranges from 60 to 85 pounds.

With the 75th overall pick in the second compensation round of Monday’s initial phase of the MLB Draft, Randy Flores and Mike Girsch selected first baseman Luken Baker from Texas Christian University (TCU). Baker is a right-handed bat that stands 6-foot-4, 265- or 240-pounds depending on if you side with MLB.com or Baseball America.

20 picks later the Cardinals selected a far more slender high school infielder from Timber Creek High School in Texas, Mateo Gil.