FORT MYERS, Fla. • As a first baseman/pitcher for a little league team out of Texas, the 11-year-old was already showing the kind of power that would make him a first-round pick — even with fences that now seem a short throw away.

At the 2004 Little League World Series, his second, the righthanded hitter paced his team with a .632 average (12-for-19) and seven of those 12 hits went for extra bases. He hit four home runs and drove in 11 runs. He led the tournament in almost every significant statistical category.

He tied for the lead in runs scored.

Before he was a teenager, Randal Grichuk was a king of Williamsport.

Looks like he's going back.

The Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates are in the process of relocating their August 20 game from PNC Park to a facility in Williamsport, Pa. The game would be part of the annual Little League World Series tournament, and it would be featured on ESPN as part of Sunday Night Baseball. An announcement is expected later this week. Sources have told the Post-Dispatch that such an opportunity was in the works, but that the mechanics of relocating two major-league teams to the LLWS facilities was being worked out.