The Cardinal Nation is proud to roll out our 18th annual choices of the top players at each level of the St. Louis Cardinals system, following season recaps by affiliate. The 2024 series runs each day from Saturday, September 28 into early November.
Continuing our annual tradition into an 18th year, the staff of The Cardinal Nation recap the 2024 season at each level of the St. Louis Cardinals system. We then crown three award winners for each team – The Cardinal Nation Minor League Starting Pitchers, Relievers and Players of the Year.
Our selections will be unveiled, one team recap or award per day, every day, from Saturday, September 28 into early November. Club recaps from rookie to Triple-A are first, then the Dominican Summer League (DSL) Reliever of the Year, all the way through the Memphis Redbirds Player of the Year.
Several special awards follow, including our top players across the entire Cardinals minor league system for 2024 as well as the best-performing rookies and top emerging and comeback players. The series will continue with our choice as the top manager in the organization and conclude with the system’s top hitting and pitching performers by various statistical measures.
Those at the keyboard are our team of locally-based reporters – covering every Cardinals minor league affiliate first-hand – as they select the very best of the best at each level and overall.
Participating TCN staff members include Curtis Chamblee (Memphis), Jayden Pettus (Springfield), Porter Staloch (Peoria), Ryan Anthony (Palm Beach), Paul Ivice (Florida Complex League) plus Leonda Markee (Dominican Summer League). Blake Newberry will single out the top first-year players and system-wide stats leaders.
Clockwise from upper right: Blake Newberry, Curtis Chamblee, Jayden Pettus, Porter Staloch and Ryan Anthony.
Note: While the team reports and all winning names are made available to everyone as this master article is updated daily, the detailed commentary behind most of the player awards in this series are exclusively for The Cardinal Nation members.
This 40-article series includes analysis from our local reporters as to tradeoffs made and what we saw in the best players to take the field at each level of the Cardinals system during the 2024 season.
Again, we begin with a daily series recapping each minor league club’s 2024 season in depth, looking at records, injuries, player movement, key stats and much more. Once the articles are published, click on the highlighted names below to read them if you missed them the first time.
The Cardinal Nation 2024 Award Winners/Schedule
| Team | Writer | Team recap (free) | Reliever |
Starter |
Player |
| DSL | Leonda Markee | link | Fri 10/4 | Thu 10/10 | Wed 10/16 |
| FL Complex | Paul Ivice | link | Sat 10/5 | Fri 10/11 | Thu 10/17 |
| Palm Beach | Ryan Anthony | link | Sun 10/6 | Sat 10/12 | Fri 10/18 |
| Peoria | Porter Staloch | link | Mon 10/7 | Sun 10/13 | Sat 10/19 |
| Springfield | Jayden Pettus | link | Tue 10/8 | Mon 10/14 | Sun 10/20 |
| Memphis | Curtis Chamblee | link | Wed 10/9 | Tue 10/15 | Mon 10/21 |
| Players of Year | Writer | Pitcher |
Player |
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| Top Rookies | Blake Newberry | Tue 10/22 | Wed 10/23 | ||
| Emerging | Brian Walton | Thu 10/24 | Fri 10/25 | ||
| Comeback | Brian Walton | Sat 10/26 | Sun 10/27 | ||
| Players of Year | Writer | Reliever |
Starter |
Player |
|
| Top Players | Brian Walton | Mon 10/28 | Tue 10/29 | Wed 10/30 | |
| Manager | Brian Walton | Thu 10/31 | |||
| of the Year |
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| Stat recaps | Writer | Counting stats |
Rate stats |
Speed |
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| Offensive leaders | Blake Newberry | Fri 11/1 | Sat 11/2 | Sun 11/3 | |
| Pitching leaders | Blake Newberry | Mon 11/4 | Tue 11/5 |
Click on the name highlighted in the table above to be taken to that detailed article. In addition, select each team name to read the 2024 overall summary for that level.
Then, join the daily discussion at The Cardinal Nation’s free message board, as each selection is unveiled.
If you ever forget the location of this article, you can always return by using the permanent link on The Cardinal Nation homepage. Underneath the site logo in the left column, click on “Season Recaps/Top Players”, and select the year.
Our annual Cardinals Top 50 Prospect Ranking countdown for 2025 will begin in November after this series concludes. Please remember that the two processes are separate and distinct.
This effort is to recognize the top performances on the field in 2024, whether the players are projected to have a big-league future down the road or not. In other words, this is all about current year results at the assigned level of play, not future potential.
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