A little while back, I laid out some ideas I had for covering prospects and draft matters this offseason, and asked for some feedback as to things people might like to see covered as well. I received a handful of suggestions, including an emailed suggestion to look at the history of Cardinal signings in Latin America, which I do plan on trying to get to sometime this offseason. However, in the meantime, I’m going to cover another suggested topic; someone in the comments section requested a history of all the Cardinals’ first round picks (I assume they meant recent history, and not since the inception of the draft itself), and how they did compared to who the optimal selection might have been.
Looking back at the history of Cardinal first-round draft picks, beginning with the Jeff Luhnow era.
