Following the 2024 season, I dug into the St. Louis Cardinals' pitching development woes since the 2020s began, and the numbers were even worse than I thought.
Prior to 2025, only two starters whom the Cardinals had developed internally had made 10 or more starts with a sub-4.00 ERA (Andre Pallante and John Gant), and only two other starters, Jack Flaherty and Dakota Hudson, made 10 or more starts with a sub-5.00 ERA over that stretch.
A decade prior, the Cardinals had six young starters combine for 378 starts with an ERA of 3.