New Top 30 prospects out

[82birds]

Some notables:
Roby is still ranked 10 but won't pitch at all this year. Odd.
Big drop for Hence to #15, and it mentions they will probably want him in the pen.
Blaze Jordan is only #27. Some were led to believe he'd be one of our next sluggers when he was acquired. Looks more like another whiff.
Lo is the highest of our trade acquisitions at 5. I wish we would see more of him in ST.
RaRod at 3 is now well ahead of Crooks and Bernal, really wonder if they shouldn't be labeled expendable. (otherwise, why isn't one of them truly in the running for starting C this year over Pages?)

link?

[craviduce]

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[craviduce]

Some notables:
Roby is still ranked 10 but won't pitch at all this year. Odd.
Big drop for Hence to #15, and it mentions they will probably want him in the pen.
Blaze Jordan is only #27. Some were led to believe he'd be one of our next sluggers when he was acquired. Looks more like another whiff.
Lo is the highest of our trade acquisitions at 5. I wish we would see more of him in ST.
RaRod at 3 is now well ahead of Crooks and Bernal, really wonder if they shouldn't be labeled expendable. (otherwise, why isn't one of them truly in the running for starting C this year over Pages?)

link?

https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/cardinals/

it's the new Top 30 list for Preseason 2026 from mlbpipeline/mlb.com

[82birds]

Some notables:
Roby is still ranked 10 but won't pitch at all this year. Odd.
Big drop for Hence to #15, and it mentions they will probably want him in the pen.
Blaze Jordan is only #27. Some were led to believe he'd be one of our next sluggers when he was acquired. Looks more like another whiff.
Lo is the highest of our trade acquisitions at 5. I wish we would see more of him in ST.
RaRod at 3 is now well ahead of Crooks and Bernal, really wonder if they shouldn't be labeled expendable. (otherwise, why isn't one of them truly in the running for starting C this year over Pages?)

link?

https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/cardinals/

it's the new Top 30 list for Preseason 2026 from mlbpipeline/mlb.com

thx Duce

[Melville]

Some notables:
Roby is still ranked 10 but won't pitch at all this year. Odd.
Big drop for Hence to #15, and it mentions they will probably want him in the pen.
Blaze Jordan is only #27. Some were led to believe he'd be one of our next sluggers when he was acquired. Looks more like another whiff.
Lo is the highest of our trade acquisitions at 5. I wish we would see more of him in ST.
RaRod at 3 is now well ahead of Crooks and Bernal, really wonder if they shouldn't be labeled expendable. (otherwise, why isn't one of them truly in the running for starting C this year over Pages?)

Appreciate the thread.
I was going to also reference the new top 30 list - but you beat me to it.
Let's take this in a slightly different direction.
Cijntje #5.
Clarke #9.
Fajardo #13.
Three of the top 15 now ranked in the system - and each with at least one significant red flag - were acquired in the Gray, Contreras, and Donovan trades.
Not one of the acquisitions remotely close to the top 3 of Wetherholt, Doyle, and Rodrigues - there is a significant drop off after that.
That is an extremely paltry return considering that stated goal of restocking and increasing the quality of the minor league prospect pool.
STL already had 12 of the current top 15 on hand - making it impossible to realistically claim the system has been improved all that much.
It is true that Bloom correctly and wisely added much needed depth to the MLB rotation depth in Fitts and Dobbins.
But he significantly underperformed in his claimed objective to add high end prospect talent.