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Cardinals stock up on pitching, strategy on Day 2 of MLB Draft

With their first pick on the second day of the Major League Baseball Draft, the Cardinals went to Georgia and drafted a Bulldog, a righthanded pitcher with a slider, steady rep, and a strong draft year that included earning a spot in his school's weekend rotation.

Fourteen years after the scouts went down to the Georgia and brought back Mitchell Boggs, the Cardinals revisited Athens, Ga., and selected Tony Locey with their third-round pick. Like, Boggs, he's a righthanded pitcher. Like Boggs, he flashes upside velocity. Like Boggs, he's got a quality slider. And like so many of the Cardinals picks he's got that college profile that they take in the draft and make into major-league contributors.