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Pujols, Carpenter and Pham among the gems found by Cardinals in draft's later rounds

A 13th-round draft selection by the Cardinals in 1999, Albert Pujols was likely the greatest late-round steal the team has ever made.

Righthander Trevor Rosenthal was an infielder with a Kansas City-area junior college when the Cardinals drafted him in the 21st round in 2009.

Baseball's amateur draft next month will consist of just five rounds — a cost-cutting measure in the wake of MLB's shutdown — and anybody signed after that will receive no more than $20,000. But rounds six through 50, or six through 40 in later years, have produced some gems and the Cardinals would have quite a representative team from such players culled in the second and third days of the amateur draft.