If you consider what pitching the Cardinals developed from the 2010-2019 drafts, it makes me wonder if there is/was a problem with something in the organization. They have almost nothing to show on the pitching side for 10 years worth of drafts.
Save your breath, I’ve been arguing the same for years. In 2010 the Cardinals had the best combined MiLB record in baseball. The system was loaded and the envy of the baseball world. In 2011 we won the WS with a hoard of home growns. Analytics in that era was a fancy new tool added to the toolbox of the Kissel and Kittle types and their cohorts. That new tool was being wielded by Luhnow, who either knew what he was doing or knew how to hire people who did, or both.
Then, after the 2011 WS, the Astros hired Luhnow, who left town with some folks in tow (cherry picked I am sure), and as I still maintain, some proprietary intellectual property (the smart computers in blingspeak). From there its been a steady downhill glide until today. I was and am convinced that since that exodus, the Cardinals organization has not done an effective job of using analytics to good effect, and I definitely think they are wrong in the apparent belief that analytics can do it all without benefit of traditional cigar chomping evaluators and pine tar coaches putting it to appropriate use, every one of whom has been offloaded in the intervening years. It was a treasure trove of knowledge built up and passed along within the organization over decades, and that self perpetuation cycle has been broken and there is no one left who retains the Santa Clause bag of tricks. Replaced by wonks and their toys.
People may dispute all that, but think about it as you watch a losing record walk in from the pen to take the mound on opening day.