St. Louis Post-Dispatch · May 22, 2020
Cards have found gems later in draft
A 13th-round draft selection by the Cardinals in 1999, Albert Pujols was likely the greatest late-round steal the team has ever made.Righthander Trevor Rosenthal was an infielder with a Kansas City-area junior college when the Cardinals drafted him in the 21st round in 2009.The major league baseball draft next month will consist of just five rounds and anybody signed after that will receive no more than $20,000. But rounds six through 50, or six through 40 in later years, have produced some gems and the Cardinals would have quite a representative team from such players culled in the second and third days of the amateur draft.