[報導] Cardinals' minor cracks BA Top Ten
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TOWER GROVE — Back during those 100-win salad days of 2004 and 2005, the St.
Louis Cardinals’ tremendous success at the major-league level was a facade
for what anyone with an eye on the minors knew, and knew well: It all could
be fleeting.
A sobering reminder of the situation they put themselves in came the winter
after the Cardinals juggernaut run to the National League pennant and World
Series in 2004. Baseball America, viewed by many as the standard in the
industry for prospect evaluations, ranked the Cardinals’ minor-league system
30th out of 30 teams in its 2005 Prospect Handbook. First in the NL, dead
last in the BA.
The Cardinals vowed to change things with the 2005 draft.
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For the sake of nostalgia (and context), a detailed tour of where the
Cardinals system has been according to Baseball America and how it arrived in
the top 10:
2000 … No. 27 — top prospect: LHP Rick Ankiel; notable: No. 3 Adam Kennedy,
No. 6 Jack Wilson, No. 8 Luther Hackman.
2001 … No. 23 — top prospect: LHP Bud Smith; notable: No. 2 Albert Pujols,
No. 8 Gene Stechschulte, No. 10 Josh Pearce.
2002 … No. 30 — top prospect: RHP Jimmy Journell; notable: No. 4 Justin Pope,
No. 5 Yadier Molina, No. 10 Chad Hutchinson, No. 12 Chance Caple.
2003 … No. 28 — top prospect: RHP Dan Haren; notable: No. 2 Journell, No. 6
Shaun Boyd, No. 9 Tyler Johnson, No. 10 Molina.
2004 … No. 28 — top prospect: RHP Blake Hawksworth; notable: No. 2 Adam
Wainwright, No. 4 Molina, No. 5 Journell, No. 18 Brendan Ryan.
2005 … No. 30 — top prospect: RHP Anthony Reyes; notable: No. 6 Brad
Thompson, No. 8 Chris Duncan, No. 20 Skip Schumaker, No. 29 Journell.
2006 … No. 21 — top prospect: Reyes; notable: No. 2 Rasmus, No. 5 Mark
McCormick, No. 6 Wainwright, No. 15 Duncan, No. 20 Rick Ankiel (the
outfielder).
2007 … No. 23 — top prospect: Rasmus; notable: No. 3 Chris Perez, No. 6 Bryan
Anderson; No. 11 Mitchell Boggs, No. 19 Johnson, No. 29 Schumaker.
2008 … No. 13 — top prospect: Rasmus; notable: No. 2 Perez, No. 3 Anderson,
No. 9 Boggs, No. 12 Jess Todd, No. 13 Joe Mather, No. 19 Kyle
McClellan, No. 24 Jason Motte.
2009 … No. 8 — top prospect: Rasmus. notable: check back in January when —
full disclosure — the top 10 I authored for BA is published.
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