The St. Louis Cardinals, under the direction of first-time draft liaison Randy Flores, entered tonight’s 2016 MLB draft with three first round selections.
The first selection made by the Cardinals was that of short stop Delvin Perez. Perez, who is just seventeen years old, was- at one point- lauded to be selected as high as number two in this year’s draft but had fallen in expectation of late due to a positive PED result.
All of that aside, Perez comes with pretty high praise. This Puerto Rican player has been praised as the third fastest player in all prep players by Perfect Game USA (thank you, Amazin’ Avenue of SB Nation).