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I don’t love the direction of the lack of SP innings pitcher, but I don’t think it is a deal breaker. The Brewers have one of the best performing rotations and they have the 3rd least SP innings pitched.
The problem is, Marmol does not know how to let relievers pitch more than one inning at a time. If our starting pitchers get to the point they can only go three innings (as we are seeing in the minor leagues), he will use one reliever per inning the rest of the game, and have zero relievers available for extra innings.
$170 million is less than they receive from MLB.
Under the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) negotiated in 2022, each MLB team pools 48 per cent of local revenues with the total amount split equally between all 30 teams. This results in each team taking in 3.3 per cent of the total—an estimated $110 million USD, if not more. Teams also receive a share of national revenues, totalling around $90 million USD per team.
Here’s a snapshot of how our ranked pitchers are doing to date:
#2 – Liam Doyle – 21 years old, AA, 9 starts in 2026, 34.0 IP (average 3.8 innings per start), 5.82 ERA; 1.56 WHiP; 70% of the pitches thrown in college were fastballs
#5 – Quinn Mathews – 25 years old, AAA, 10 starts in 2026, 39.2 IP (average of 3.9 innings per start), 5.22 ERA, 1.61 WHIP; his third year at Memphis
#6 – Tanner Franklin – 22 years old, A+, 10 starts in 2026, 34.1 IP (average of 3.4 innings per start), 3.93 ERA, 1.34 WHIP
#8 – Jurrangelo Cijntje – 22 years old, AA, 9 starts, 41.2 IP (average of 4.6 innings per start), 5.18 ERA, 1.44 WHIP
#9 – Brandon Clarke – 23 years old, AA, hasn’t pitched in 2026, 38.0 professional innings, 14 starts (average 2.7 innings per start), career ERA 4.03, career WHIP 1.16
#10 – Tekoah Roby – 24 years old, AAA, hasn’t pitched in 2026, 301.2 professional innings, 31.1 innings at AAA, 6 GS started at AAA (average 5.2 innings per start), 4.02 ERA at AAA, 1.31 WHIP at AAA
#11 – Cooper Hjerpe – 25 years old, hasn’t pitched since 2024, 93.1 professional innings
#12 – Ixan Henderson – 24 years old, hasn’t pitched in 2026, 0 innings at AAA
#14 – Yhoiker Fajardo – 19 years old, A+, 37.1 IP, 9 games pitched – 7 starts (average of 4.1 IP per game), 3.38 ERA, 1.37 WHIP
#15 – Brycen Mautz – 24 years old, AAA (made MLB debut this week), 40.1 IP, 9 starts (average of 4.5 innings per game), 2.90 ERA at AAA, 1.36 WHIP at AAA
#17 – Chen Wei-Lin – 24 years old, AA, 35.1 IP, 9 games pitched – 6 starts (average 3.9 innings per game), 4.58 ERA, 1.50 WHIP
#18 – Mason Molina – 22 years old, AA, 39.2 IP, 9 starts (4.4 innings per game), 3.18 ERA, 1.26 WHIP
#20 – Braden Davis – 23 years old, AA, 37.0 IP, 9 starts (average 4.1 innings per game), 6.08 ERA, 1.54 WHIP
#23 – Luis Gastelum – 24 years old, AAA, 26.1 IP, 22 games, 0 starts, 3.76 ERA, 1.22 WHIP
#24 – Hancel Rincon – 24 years old, AAA, 29.1 IP, 15 games, 3 starts, 5.83 ERA, 1.57 WHIP
#28 – Cade Winquest – 26 years old, AAA, 6.2 IP, 6 games, 0 starts, 6.75 ERA, 1.05 WHIP
#29 – Tink Hence – 23 years old, AAA, 8.1 IP, 8 games, 8.64 ERA, 2.28 WHIP
#30 – Jacob Odle – 22 years old, A, 33.0 IP, 9 games – 7 starts (average 3.7 innings per start), 1.91 ERA, 1.27 WHIP
The Cards system does probably have more interesting pitching prospects than hitters though.
I don’t know about that. Our ranked pitchers, if they are on the field, aren’t doing very well (except four of them). None of them is throwing 5.0 innings per start. Maybe that is organizational philosophy. But I don’t know how they are going to throw 5.0 innings at the major league level if they can’t do it in the minors.
I attribute his poor April to dealing with the shell shock of not going north. After getting over that he had a strong May.
So do Velazquez & Marmol
“It took me a little bit (to regroup), but I got to reset myself and I started doing everything that I needed to do to be on the field,” said Velazquez, 27
In all fairness, expectations for Bedell have hit rock bottom.
And yet the Cardinals brought him back off the development list to pitch this game, and brought a struggling reliever up from A ball to pitch in the game.
So, is that catastrophe on the players or the decision makers?
There come’s a point you have to start pushing guys down the rankings when they can’t take the field for multiple years in a row.
Keith Law’s top 100 prospects in the draft is out in the athletic… just by going with that the Cardinals would get: (Likely will get none of these 5)
13) Hunter Dietz LHP Arkansas Univ.
According to MLB pipeline, Dietz has four pitches graded as a 60…He is only in the Cardinals range because he missed two years due to injury.
The folks at BA have stated there is not a lot of separation between players in the range of 8-32. So, I wonder if this would be a year to try an underslot deal with someone like Mason Edwards, who leads the NCAA in strikeouts by a wide margin, then stockpile savings to go after HS players later in the draft.
Here are my top guys who I like and I am hoping one of them makes it to 13
1. Roch Cholowsky – this guy feels like he will be quick to the majors and with his glove he will be a above average regular.
2. Grady Emerson – probably has the highest ceiling and may make me regret not having him #1.
3. Eric Booth Jr – pure athlete who has power in his bat and obvious chance to stick in CF
4. AJ Gracia – I really like Gracia’s combo of power potential and hit tool with a decent chance of sticking in CF
5. Drew Burress – guy is a performer but I hope the tools live up as college stats don’t matter at the end of the day
6. Jackson Flora – best SP in the class
7. Tyler Spangler – He has been injured this spring but the tools he does have seem really interesting. Good contact skills with power projection as he fills outI don’t know why you are mentioning Cholowsky, who is projected to go 1-1 or Emerson, who is projected to go 1-2, in this conversation. Booth & Flora will also come off the board in the Top 6.
That leaves Gracia, Burress and Spangler as potentials, with Spangler the only one ranked low enough to realistically be on the board when the Cardinals draft. Burress may fall due to his size.
Gracia seems like a good fit, but if there is one outfielder I would like the Cardinals to draft based on hit tool, it is Logan Hughes out of Texas Tech, who will likely go in the second round. The knock on Hughes is that he never played outfield until college, so is not the best fielder, but the collegiate performance and loud exit velocities would be a great fit for a system lacking impact bats in the outfield.
HS shortstops, yeah, Spangler or Ebel.
Tink Hence has thrown more innings in each of the last three seasons than Cooper Hjerpe, but Hjerpe is still in the Top 11?
Roby and Clarke can’t stay on the field, either.
Yes, more alarming than the belief starting pitchers can’t throw more than 5 innings is the belief that relief pitchers can’t throw more than one inning.
ESPN has the Cardinals taking a prep OF/LHP in the first round
Maybe we even throw in Gorman and Walker so they can take a flier on them as well.
Walker needs to be DFA’d and go the indy ball route.
That .398 OPS in spring training isn’t going to entice anyone into believing they can “fix” him.
The Gastellum trade was made only because there are zero consequences for this trade turning out a bust, even though it defies logic.
I heard some grousing about Nolan Gorman being awarded the 3B job, but none about Jordan Walker being awarded the RF job.
For their careers:
Gorman – 4 seasons – positive 3.5 career WAR, one season with an OPS above .800, 0 seasons with and OPS below .600.
Walker – 3 seasons – (negative 2.7 career WAR), zero seasons with an OPS above .800, 1 season with an OPS below .600The Cardinals brought in Urias to back up / compete with Gorman. Who have they brought in to back up / compete with Walker?
Not to mention, the Cardinals infield is still overflowing…
Plus the fact that he really wasn’t a highly rated prospect coming through the system.
What does that have to do with it? He’s out-produced just about all of our first and second rounds over the past decade, all of whom were more highly rated than him.
I havent had a chance to read the article yet and will later, but $5 million is disappointing to me. I know in the past they like to leave some money for later signing and maybe that will be the case, but $3 million is a lot of left over space.
Yes, but the Cardinals are poor now. They have to live on a budget.
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.
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
I think this is what the Cardinals hope to do with him. He apparently wants to keep pitching from both sides.
Did Bloom say that though? He seemed to acknowledge the Cardinals were interested in allowing Cijntje to continue pitching from both sides, but I don’t think he said their development plan is for him to throw 75% of his pitches from his strong side.
We know Seattle wanted him to throw nearly 100% from his weak side in 2026…
