If your farm system is void of all manner of high upside bats, there's usually at least a couple of corner infielders knocking around the middle levels to give some hope that all is not lost.
That's just simply not the case for the Cardinals in 2015. This is about as paltry a list of corner infielders as one could likely find anywhere in baseball. And not just this year either, but about any year in the last three full decades since Jack Clark came to St. Louis. I can safely say I can't remember any farm system in baseball having such a group of no-show prospects at positions where good bats are usually fairly easy to find.