He wasn't just the Cardinals' award-winner for minor league pitcher of the year — he won the award for the whole Pacific Coast League. Yet Dakota Hudson is often forgotten, even though he's got the makeup to be the next great groundball-inducer for St. Louis, a la Miles Mikolas or Carlos Martinez (or Adam Wainwright or Mike Leake or Lance Lynn).
“When you have the depth of somebody like a Austin Gomber or a John Gant or a Daniel Ponce de Leon, that’s why we have some confidence in how to sort of do this. And the one name I think we don’t really give real consideration to as a starter and probably should be doing more of is Hudson.