Cardinals 15-Year Team: The First Basemen

Voit. Adams. Scruggs. Mather.

Beginning Monday, Cardinals fans will have 48 hours to decide who reigns as the top first baseman in Springfield Cardinals history during Round 1 of the Springfield Cardinals 15-Year Team, presented by Mercy.

Fans will have two chances to vote for their favorite with polls running on the Cardinals official Twitter and Facebook platforms from 9:00 a.m. Monday morning until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday night.

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Let's take a look at the nominees.

Matt Adams
- 2011 Texas League Player of the Year, setting Springfield single season records with 32 home runs and 101 RBI while hitting .300 in 115 games
- Has hit .259 with 118 home runs and 397 RBI in 834 career MLB games, including 513 games with St. Louis from 2012-18
- Hit go-ahead 3-run home run off Clayton Kershaw in 7th inning of Game 4 of 2014 NLDS, sending St. Louis to series-clinching 3-2 win
- Won 2019 World Series with Washington Nationals

Joe Mather
- “Joey Bombs” hit .303 with a whopping 18 home runs and 46 RBI through 64 games with Springfield in 2007, earning Texas League Mid-Season All-Star honors
- Made MLB debut with St. Louis on May 30, 2008 with a hit and an RBI vs. Pittsburgh
- Played in 229 career MLB games from 2008-12, hitting .219 with 14 homers and 49 RBI
- Hit .233 with eight home runs in 90 games with St. Louis before a short stint with the Atlanta Braves in 2011 and finishing his MLB career with a career-high 103 games for the Chicago Cubs in 2012

Xavier Scruggs
- Springfield Cardinals all-time home run king (59) and RBI leader (193)
- Hit iconic walk-off home run in 9th inning on July 4, 2013 before biggest crowd in Springfield Cardinals history (11,818 fans)
- Made MLB debut with St. Louis on Sept. 4, 2014, suiting up in 50 big league games with the Cardinals and Miami Marlins from 2014-16

Luke Voit
- Current first baseman for the New York Yankees
- 2016 Texas League Mid-Season and Post-Season All-Star with Springfield
- 2016 Bass Pro Shops Home Run Derby Champion at Hammons Field
- 2016 Texas League Batting Champion

One of the Cardinals original community partners, Mercy has been the Official Sports Medicine Partner of the Springfield Cardinals since we threw our first pitch in 2005. Their invaluable relationship with the Springfield Cardinals organization and the Southwest Missouri community made them the perfect fit to help us honor the first decade and a half of Cardinals Baseball in Springfield.

Over the next nine weeks, Cardinals fans will vote on names old and new to select their favorite Springfield Cardinals at their respective positions. For most positions (except starting pitchers) fans will have a two day voting window.

On every Thursday night following the closing of each round of voting, the winning player will be announced on the Cardinals social media accounts by a rotating host of experts and special guests. Online fan vote winners will also be complemented by expert picks to complete the Cardinals 15-Year Team roster, which will consist of 34 players and our six all-time field managers as the coaching staff, with current St. Louis Cardinals Manager Mike Shildt as the honorary skipper of the team.