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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/blue_jays_teen.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Brazilian Teenager Signs Contract With Baseballs Toronto Blue Jays' data-article-id='2484'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13708'>Major League Baseball&rsquo;s website says the Toronto Blue Jays signed Eric Pardinho, a teenager from Brazil, on July 2.</span> <span data-start-time='13708' data-end-time='16313'>Pardinho is a pitcher.</span> <span data-start-time='16313' data-end-time='22938'>He can throw a baseball over 145 kilometers per hour.</span> <span data-start-time='22938' data-end-time='30104'>That is just about the average speed of a fast pitch in Major League Baseball.</span> <span data-start-time='30104' data-end-time='34000'>But Pardinho should get even better.</span> <span data-start-time='34000' data-end-time='37875'>After all, he is only 16.</span> <span data-start-time='37875' data-end-time='47500'>If Pardinho makes it to the major leagues, he will be only the fourth Brazilian-born player to play at that level.</span> <span data-start-time='47500' data-end-time='53333'>Cleveland Indians catcher Yan Gomes was the first.</span> <span data-start-time='53333' data-end-time='63375'>Pardinho was rated as the fifth-best international prospect by MLBPipeline.com.</span> <span data-start-time='63375' data-end-time='73833'>He throws right-handed and is only 1.72 meters tall, which is short for a pitcher.</span> <span data-start-time='73833' data-end-time='81500'>He received over $1 million for agreeing to play in the Blue Jays&rsquo; organization.</span> <span data-start-time='81500' data-end-time='87313'>Pardinho said he was six years old when he started playing.</span> <span data-start-time='87313' data-end-time='96917'>His uncle saw him playing paddleball on the beach and thought he might make a good baseball player.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/blue_jays_teen.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=8956 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/what_does_signed_mean.m4a'>What does signed mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='written agreement'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/good_prospect.m4a'><span>good prospect</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/written_agreement.m4a'><span>written agreement</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/might_play.m4a'><span>might play</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/play_baseball.m4a'><span>play baseball</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=8957 data-hint-location='81500' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/when_did_he_start_playing.m4a'>When did he start playing?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='age six'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/at_the_beach.m4a'><span>at the beach</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/age_six.m4a'><span>age six</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/in_college.m4a'><span>in college</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/at_sixteen.m4a'><span>at sixteen</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=8958 data-hint-location='30104' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/he_should_get__blank_.m4a'>He should get <span class='blank'>even better</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='even better'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/more_money.m4a'><span>more money</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/even_better.m4a'><span>even better</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/a_contract.m4a'><span>a contract</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1966/a_great_job.m4a'><span>a great job</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>

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