St. Louis has a history of turning catchers into everything from 1B to closers, and they took a third straight listed backstop in the 19th round. Ryan McCarvel may be the best athlete of the group, and the Cardinals will not get him for cheap.
St. Louis has a history of turning catchers into everything from 1B to closers, and they took a third straight listed backstop in the 19th round. Ryan McCarvel may be the best athlete of the group, and the Cardinals will not get him for cheap.
Chris Chinea and Josh Rolette give St. Louis three total catchers in the 2015 Draft. Chinea is still playing for LSU (CWS Alert) while Rolette is a Oklahoma HS pick. Welcome to Cardinal Nation!
Cardinals are in the stage of the Draft where they are very specific in looking at needs. They took a listed SS for the first time in Ryan Merrill out of Iowa Western CC (15th) and the first reliever in Max Almonte from Villanova (16th).
Some teams are afraid of the ‘cold-weather’ states when it comes to the draft, but that never has been an issue for the Cardinals. It appears that St. Louis may have turned to an old stomping ground once again in Round 14 and stop me if you have heard this before — a 6’6″ RHP [...]
Oklahoma was again a target for the Cardinals, who snapped up Jacob Evans in the 6th Round and used their 13th Round pick on CF Craig Aikin. He is the fourth outfielder St. Louis has selected this year.
Since the Springfield Cardinals share a field with Missouri State, the St. Louis farm system started off Day 3 of the Draft by taking away some competition from MSU. The Cardinals took two High School pitchers in the 11th and 12th round and both are committed to colleges in Arkansas. The all-important 11th round typically [...]
Get ready for a full day of new St. Louis names and much more as the Cardinals complete the 50th Anniversary of the Rule 4 Draft!
Ugh. These last two games in Denver haven’t been fun. First up was an 11-3 shellacking. Denver was firing on all cylinders, led by Troy Tulowitzki, who had a 3 run homer, and David Hale, who pitched seven innings and giving up three runs in a place where giving up three runs is almost the [...]
