I know that I tend to pour quite a bit of adulation on Randy Flores and the Cardinals’ scouting/drafting department around here. Even when I don’t necessarily agree with a move the Cards make in the draft or player acquisition, I almost always feel like the decision was well thought out, planned, and then generally executed with a high level of success. Sometimes moves don’t work out — see Perez, Delvin — but there is usually a great deal of forethought that goes into them all the same. And really, while judging based on results is, ultimately, what tends to happen with scouting departments, not to mention pretty much all other front office positions, the actual best you can expect is to have moves that make sense, well planned out, and executed properly.
Post-Draft Bonus Talk
