After making his debut in professional baseball debut Saturday with Class Low-A Palm Beach, Cardinals prospect Liam Doyle’s next outing could present him with more advanced hitters and a new environment.

Doyle, the lefty the Cardinals selected with the fifth overall pick in this past July’s MLB Draft, was promoted to Class AA Springfield on Tuesday ahead of its run in the Texas League playoffs. Doyle, 21, joins Springfield’s roster with six games left in the regular season and a week before they open the Texas League Division series.

In previous years, the Cardinals have used late-season promotions to playoff-bound clubs for select prospects as a way to present them with playing in postseason atmospheres.

The Cardinals did so last year when catching prospect Leonardo Bernal and outfield

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