The Cardinals sent an interesting contingent to this year’s edition of the Arizona Fall League (AFL). That short season has wrapped up and we will look at how the individual Cardinal representatives performed.
Some time ago, the AFL was viewed as a finishing school for top prospects. That appears to be evolving. Now it seems like a place where some teams (like the Cardinals) send prospects who missed time during the season with injury and for under-the-radar prospects who are approaching the 40-man roster decision point. And given that only 2 of the Cardinal players are even listed as prospects on the Fangraphs Prospect Board, perhaps just a few are roster fillers.