Every year around the beginning of Spring Training, MLB Pipeline releases updated rankings for all 30 major-league organizations’ top 30 prospects. Entering 2017, the St. Louis Cardinals rank 12th in baseball as a whole in farm system rankings, better than the Chicago Cubs, who come in at 16th.
Many of the Cardinals’ top-30 are still quite young and don’t project to break in at the major-league level for a couple more years at least. Nevertheless, thanks in part to the international signings the organization has been able to make, the farm system is in a good spot.