Player development has been the center of conversation for the St. Louis Cardinals for years now, and if they truly want to get back to being a premier organization at raising up their own talent, evidence of that has to be seen at the minor league levels.
Going into the 2025 season, the Cardinals' farm system was ranked by most outlets between the 15th and 20th group of prospects in the game. Not bad, but not great either. The encouraging news was that when Chaim Bloom walked into Boston, their farm system was ranked dead last in all of baseball, and he flipped that into the best in the game in just under five years.