This story was originally posted April 30, 2014.
Once it was film projectors that were a must-have to scout college players, and then came beta tapes, Steve Keim remembered.
It’s a different world, now. Digital video can easily be sorted to watch on an iPad, and technology has taken all draft preparation to another place altogether – a place manifested in the Cardinals’ upgraded draft room, where a giant interactive screen on one end underscores how the draft is done.
“The new draft board is like Christmas day for us,” said Keim, these days the Cardinals' General Manager.