The Cardinals went in an unexpected (to me, at least), direction with their second pick in the draft. There were arms on the board I really thought they would take, but instead they went with Trejyn Fletcher, a high schooler from, of all places, Maine.
This is a very risky pick, largely because it feels like a similar process to the one which brought the Cards Nick Plummer. Plummer, you may recall, tore up the showcase circuit the summer before he was drafted, looking like easily the best high school hitter in his class, and if you saw him play at that point you probably thought you were looking at a top ten overall pick. Then he headed back to Michigan and their weird 1-1 count at-bats,…
