I noticed a curious thing when I was perusing potential outfielders for the Cardinals to sign. I noticed this when I made a case for Michael Conforto, which was understandably not received that well. If you hyper focus on right-handed outfielders, there’s a bunch of former Cardinals. It’s actually kind of crazy how many of them are former Cardinals in comparison to the appealing right-handed outfielders who’ve never been in the Cardinal organization.
Part of it is admittedly that there just aren’t that many appealing outfield options in general. You do not get very far down the list of outfielders before you start noticing that ideally they are fourth outfielders, platoon players, or bench players in the ideal situation.