Baseball America might not yet have its finger on the pulse of the current St. Louis Cardinals.
The Cardinals have long preached drafting and developing quality players as the center of their model for sustained success, and throughout much of that time under former president of baseball operations John Mozeliak, the team targeted the same type of polished, low-upside pitcher at the top of the draft. On the hitters side of the coin, the Cardinals have recently taken bigger swings, choosing Jordan Walker, Nolan Gorman, Dylan Carlson and Nick Plummer in the first round out of high school over the past decade.