Prospect-heavy Saints win opener at CHS Field as David Festa leads way

Prospect-heavy Saints win opener at CHS Field as David Festa leads way

With spring training dwindling to its final days, right-handed starter David Festa still wasn’t sure whether his season would begin on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis or along the Mississippi in St. Paul. As things turned out, Festa headed north from Fort Myers, not to St. Louis but further north to St. Paul. With Simeon Woods Richardson nailing down the fifth-starter spot with the Twins, Festa was sent to the Triple-A Saints of …