When Lunhow was here the Cardinals were supposedly the envy of MLB when it came to innovation and analytics. If I recall correctly the Cardinals had the number 1 ranked farm system in 2013.
Yes, when Lunhow was here, the Cardinals were considered one of the premier analytics teams. The people that left for Houston and now Baltimore have built two teams, as the Cardinals have fallen to the point where one MLB Analyst, in a link Brian posted this summer, stated the Cardinals were one of the worst teams in baseball at analytics.