Lynn Worthy | Post-Dispatch

Sports columnist

With all due respect to the Texas football heritage and the state’s latest and greatest gunslinging quarterback prodigy, Patrick Mahomes, this week at Busch Stadium served as a reminder that the baseball diamonds down there in the Lone Star State also produce more than their share of athletic wunderkinds.

Kansas City Royals superstar Bobby Witt Jr. and Cardinals rising star Masyn Winn, two ubertalented young shortstops from Texas, took turns patrolling the infield at Busch Stadium during this week’s I-70 series.

Witt, 24, and Winn, 23, provide as big an endorsement as imaginable for Major League Baseball teams leaning into youth and athleticism and making allowances for on-the-job learning at the big league level.

That’s true even if you on

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