The next prospect in our St. Louis Cardinals’ Top Prospects series is a good player who with a little more success at the minor league level could find himself with the big club sooner rather than later. However, this prospect has struggled recently with getting the bat on the ball.
Jacob Wilson narrowly avoided going to another organization in December, as he was eligible to be selected in the Rule 5 draft. The perspective of the Cardinals to in fact not protect Wilson is interesting, it is telling to how they view him in regards to his potential with the team.