The Cardinals Way by Howard Megdal

Author:Howard Megdal
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466862395
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

The hiring of Jeff Luhnow came at the conclusion of a whirlwind month, an e-mail from Bill DeWitt’s son-in-law to a few meetings to a memo announcing it all. That project, as 2010 dawned, was entering its seventh year. The project continued, to be sure. But neither internally, nor externally, was there any consensus that it was working.

The skeptics weren’t simply those who opposed analytics.

Baseball Prospectus ranked the thirty organizations. On March 8, 2010, Kevin Goldstein ranked the Cardinals … thirtieth:

Why They Are Here: Their recent drafts aren’t awful per se, but they’re certainly boring and lacking as far as star power. The graduation of a few prospects and the trading away of even more (which happens when you are a perennial contender) leaves the system almost solely riding on the hopes for Shelby Miller’s right arm.

Where They Will Be Next Year: Either here, or darn close to here. Their first-round pick doesn’t come until the 25th selection, so there’s no star power coming from there either, not unless someone falls into their lap. If Miller collapses for some reason, there’s nobody here worthy of top-prospect recognition.3

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