Draft: From a Cards Blog's Perspective

The consensus is that while this draft may have the biggest headliner baseball has seen in a long time — San Diego State pitcher Stephen Strasburg is being billed as “Best Prospect Ever?”, always with that essential question mark — the overall depth of this draft is seriously lacking.
There are some good pitchers, enough to fill out the first round. There aren’t many position players, especially coming from the college level.

One thing is sure: 2005 this is not.

The St. Louis Cardinals have hinted at that in some of their draft comments in the past week. VP/farm director Jeff Luhnow said that most teams probably all have the same five or six players at the top of their draft board, but after that — and certainly after the top 10 — the opinions probably stray wildly. Teams could overdraft on a few high-school position players because the college guys just aren’t there. Teams could veer toward the high-school pitchers earlier, despite the rumored asking prices of some of these arms. Clubs like the Cardinals, who are picking 19th overall, are waiting to see if there’s a top-10 pitcher who drops because of signability concerns, injury concerns, or recent performance concerns.

The depth of this draft will impact the quality of player available at 19, but the history of picking 19th in the draft is fairly strong, despite the last time the Cardinals picked there. Seems like a good place to start today’s Draft Day 10@10 …

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bird-land/bird-land/2009/06/dgs-1010-getting-nothing-for-something-getting-something-at-19