Keith Law is not known to be the biggest St. Louis Cardinals fan in the world, but still manages to stay relatively detached from that when he puts out his yearly rankings. Law is a prospect guy, and now that he’s with The Athletic, you need a subscription to read what he writes.
As he does yearly, Law just put out his farm system rankings for the year. In the past couple of years, the Cardinals really haven’t ranked very highly in these lists due to a few years of missed draft picks.
In 2015, the Cardinals took Nick Plummer in the first round, in 2016, they picked Delvin Perez first, and then in 2017, the Cardinals didn’t have a first or second-round pick due to their cheating punishment.