Jonny Bravo, now in Technicolor!

You may be familiar with Johnny Bravo, but we'd like to introduce you to Jonny Bravo. One is animated and has tall, blond hair. The other is real and pitches for the Quad Cities River Bandits, an A-level farm team of the St. Louis Cardinals. We don't mean the Jonny Bravo who played for the San Fernando Valley Quakes, a soccer team, because we know there's likely to be a lot of confusion over this proliferation of Jonny Bravos.

Jonny, a lefty who attended high school in Chino Hills, east of Los Angeles, went on to play college ball at Azusa Pacific University, a small NAIA school in the Southern California foothills. He was drafted by the Cards in the 23rd round last year and had a decent season for Johnson City, but things appear to have taken a turn for the worse in 2009. As in a 21.94 ERA turn for the worse. Perhaps his current stint on the disabled list will help.

We should also note that he was the 695th pick in the 2008 draft. Going back to 1965, that pick has never been a lucky one. Sorry, Jonny.