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Where on gods green earth did you get those numbers Pads? I have a political fake numbers comment that I won’t say… These are last years BB9. (Hjerpe is 2024 since he was out)
Davis – 6.1
Doyle – 4.9
Hjerpe – 4.8
Mathews – 6.7This being a draft-thread, those were their numbers during their final season before the draft – in college.
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If the Cards “contention window” is considered 2028+ the 13 & 32 need to be college bats that can potentially be a 3-6 order bat in my opinion. Not a dude possibly ready in 2031.
Just no more middle IF or LHSP please!!
You don’t draft based off need. Take the best player available talent wise. I generally drop pitchers a half grade based off the changing game regarding innings pitched though.
SS is also generally where the best players are at in HS or college as well. If you aren’t playing SS for your high school team, then odds are you are at best a corner OF or 1B in pro ball if you couldn’t beat out other guys athletically and defensively in HS. Just because a guy is draft at SS doesn’t mean he stays there, but they are generally more athletic and can fail down to 3B, CF, 2B and still not be at the bottom of the defensive spectrum.
The @Cardinals have promoted Zach Mortimer to director of amateur acquisitions & he'll run their drafts going forward. A former @baseballpro writer, Mortimer joined the Cards as an area scout in 2013 before rising to regional crosschecker in 2017 & national crosschecker in 2019.
— Jim Callis (@jimcallisMLB) February 2, 2026
Stlcard25, presumably Flores will be the boss of all amateur and professional scouting with a director for each reporting to him.
Where can you find allotted values for picks? I’ve seen a few on here post that in past years. Has it been announced for 2026 even? Or where could I find 2025’s?
The Cards will be in a position to pick a safe player if they desire to, and save up some money to sign more difficult picks.
Based on last years figures, the Cards should have around 19.2 million to spend on their draft picks. The comp A pick ought to be around 3 million, the comp B picks around a million each. Plus I believe they can overspend by 5%. That would give them 20 million total.
I guess it is a good year to have a lot of top picks. Carlos Callazo at BA says this is the deepest class he has covered since he started the draft class coverage in 2018.
C27 said:
Based on last years figures, the Cards should have around 19.2 million to spend on their draft picks. The comp A pick ought to be around 3 million, the comp B picks around a million each. Plus I believe they can overspend by 5%. That would give them 20 million total.
You cannot base this year on last year because the Cardinals pick later in 2026 due to their poor luck in the lottery. To be specific, in 2025, the #5 overall pick was worth $2.6 million more in cap money than the #13 overall pick. Also, they already had a Comp B pick last year so all three picks this year are not incremental. $20 million is way too high.
As as aside, this is fresh on my mind because I just went through it for a new article coming on the site for subscribers looking at past draft history of picks added and lost and how often they’ve had six in the top 100.
Spotrac estimated the Cards had about $13.7M in December. Adding the two Comp B picks should add about $2.5M for a total of $15.2M ($15,960,000 with 5% overage). Interestingly, this only moves the Cards from 8th in total bonus pool to possibly 7th, as the gap for missing the lottery was big. Bonus pool would be about $1M more than last yearif they are right.
https://www.spotrac.com/news/_/id/3189/2026-mlb-draft-estimated-signing-bonus-pools
Based on last year’s slot values:
Pick Value
13 $5,520,000
32 $2,970,000
50 $1,930,000
68 $1,220,000
72 $1,150,000
86 $920,800
115 $661,100
148 $479,800
178 $364,800
208 $285,200
238 $229,000
268 $203,500
298 $191,300
Rounds 11-20 $1,500,000$17,625,500
It will be interesting to see how the Cards handle the draft this year. Word is that it’s a deeper than usual draft, so it would be nice to take advantage of that. Generally you expect some form of big leaguer from your first and second round guys and with the comp picks, the Cards have five of those picks incoming. Add in the third rounder being pretty early in that round and I would think there is a good shot that we add 6 top 25-30 prospects in our system this summer.
Rounds 11-20 are a different animal. 1-10 is a better comparison, IMO.
Okay. So, the Cardinals have $15.1 million for rounds 1-10.
Brian Walton
You cannot base this year on last year because the Cardinals pick later in 2026 due to their poor luck in the lottery. To be specific, in 2025, the #5 overall pick was worth $2.6 million more in cap money than the #13 overall pick. Also, they already had a Comp B pick last year so all three picks this year are not incremental. $20 million is way too high.Does the order reset around the 4th round, so we get the 8th pick of that round, for instance?
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