With their first pick in the 2021 MLB draft, the Cardinals went back to the old well, and they selected a college pitcher whose best quality is his current polish, and whose stuff probably doesn’t get the credit it should. Yes, that should sound familiar, because this is basically the Dan Kantrovitz draft model, who ran the Cards’ drafts from 2012-’14, when their first-round picks were Michael Wacha, Marco Gonzales, and Luke Weaver, respectively.
In this case, the player in question is Michael McGreevy, a right-hander out of the University of California Santa Barbara, the alma mater of fellow righty Shane Bieber.