New Rules, Rich Returns: Hindsight From 2012's 'Michael Wacha Draft' Shows Cardinals Can Maximize Many Picks In 2020's Reduced Rounds

Even under the cloak of dark, cloudy skies and chilly conditions, the Cardinals’ brand new director of amateur scouting couldn’t hide his crew’s presence that February night eight years ago that would add to the club’s history within 20 months.

Post-Dispatch

Bernie On The Cardinals: The Cubs Make A Timely Front Office Hire That Could Change The NL Central

The Cubs made a smart and timely hire this week by tabbing former Cardinals’ draft director Dan Kantrovitz as their new VP of scouting.

101 ESPN

Dan Kantrovitz Joins Cubs; Jack Flaherty Fourth In Cy Young Voting; Tech Upgrades; Extra Bases

The homegrown executive who helped the Cardinals continue to splice statistics and scouting into a draft strategy that excelled at identifying pitching talent that still nourishes the team is taking his talents to the North Side.

Post-Dispatch

Should The Cardinals Look To Move On From Kolten Wong & Michael Wacha?

Morning, everyone. How are you today? It’s Monday, which even in our modern don’t-really-care-about-Garfield world tends to suck for most people. I hope the beginning of your week isn’t too bad.

Viva El Birdos

Dan Kantrovitz & Matt Slater Possible Candidates For Orioles Vice President Of Baseball Operations

While managerial candidates come in many different packages, from experienced and hardened to the major league coaching life to green and pliable to a front office's desires, such a hire for the Orioles appears to have taken a backseat as they also have to replace executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette.

Baltimore Sun

The Underwhelming Jack Flaherty Is Overwhleming Hitters

Between 2012 and 2014, the Cardinals had six first-round picks. They spent five of those picks on pitchers, three from college and two from high school. The strategy — overseen by scouting director Dan Kantrovitz, now assistant general manager in Oakland — is an interesting one, as most franchises attempt to load up on cornerstone bats to contend. Of the five pitchers selected, though, only Rob Kaminsky — traded for Brandon Moss — has failed to reach the majors thus far. Marco Gonzales is also gone from the Cardinals organization, departing in a trade last season for “a dense pillar of meat” in Tyler O’Neill. The other three picks are current employed as members of the Cardinals rotation.

Fangraphs

Audio: 'It's All Good' - Stephen Piscotty Returns Home After Reaching His Dream With Cardinals

This week for the Piscotty family, baseball will likely be one of the furthest things from their minds. But when they return from their cruise to Hawaii, they’ll again get to celebrate the news that Stephen Piscotty is coming home.

KMOX

The Ambition That Brought Jeff Luhnow To The Cardinals Is Absent Now

An organization that was once looking to improve wherever they could now seems content with business as usual.

Viva El Birdos

A Look At John Mozeliak's Worst Draft Picks

Since the start of the 2008 season, John Mozeliak’s first as General Manager, the Cardinals have been pretty damn good. They’ve finished worse than 2nd in the division only once and have failed to make the playoffs only 3 times during his tenure. John Mozeliak’s record as a GM is 814-644.

Redbird Daily

MLB's Top Ten General Manager Prospects

Before he guided the Cubs to their first World Series title in 108 years, Theo Epstein also ended another famous title drought by building a pair of championship clubs with the Red Sox. As Boston's general manager, he assembled an impressive array of talent not only on the field but also in the front office, with Josh Byrnes, Ben Cherington, Jerry Dipoto, Mike Hazen and Jed Hoyer going on to become GMs themselves.

MLB Official Site

Multiple Changes Coming To Cardinals' Scouting Department

Randy Flores reaches the one-year anniversary of his hiring as the Cardinals’ scouting director on Sunday but he likely will be a little too busy to celebrate.

STL Sports Page

For Zach Mortimer, Signing Dylan Carlson Ends 30-Month Pursuit

On one of his first days as an area scout for the Cardinals, Zach Mortimer got in his car and made the short drive from his home in Sacramento, Calif., to Elk Grove High School.

STL Sports Page

Randy Flores Eager To Cap Journey From Hill To War Room

Once it became apparent that there was no bubbling interest in a lefty reliever who had shuffled between three organizations in 2011, Randy Flores set his sights on returning to the path that a career in baseball had delayed. He made his way back to school.

St. Louis Official Site

A Look At The Cardinals' Courtship Of Aledmys Diaz

In early 2012, no more than a few months before Aledmys Diaz packed a small backpack and walked away from the Cuban national team during a tournament in the Netherlands, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak delivered a power point presentation to his staff.

Post-Dispatch

Cardinals Will Be Busy On First Day Of Draft

It's nearing crunch time for the Cardinals' scouting department, which has five weeks remaining before new scouting director Randy Flores leads the club through the 2016 MLB Draft. The three-day event will begin on June 9 and feature 40 round of picks.

St. Louis Official Site

As Aledmys Diaz Makes Debut, Read His Chapter In "Taking Flight"

Aledmys Diaz is making his major-league debut Tuesday night for the Cardinals in Pittsburgh. He is one of the players featured in the new book "Taking Flight, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Building of Baseball's Best Franchise" written by Rob Rains and published this month by Triumph Books.

STL Sports Page

Dan Kantrovitz One Of Three Candidates For Phillies' GM Vacancy

Todd Zolecki Twitter

Diamondbacks Interested In Mike Leake; Dan Haren Dedicated To Retiring; Dan Kantrovitz Interviewing For Phillies GM Vacancy; Nationals Might Look At Johnny Cueto

CBS Sports

Dan Kantrovitz A Favorite For Brewers GM Job

Young A's exec Dan Kantrovitz is seen by many as a favorite for the Brewers GM job. He's a "very strong" candidate, is the way one person put it. Kantrovitz, like Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, went to Brown, as Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com pointed out, and it doesn't hurt he also went to Harvard, where Attanasio's wife Debbie went. Attanasio is also close to A's owner Lew Wolff, a Los Angeles neighbor. Kantrovitz is an analytics expert, which fits what Attanasio seeks. Some other prospective names, even ones with a numbers bent, have been deemed "not analytical enough."

CBS Sports

Brewers Receive Permission To Interview Dan Kantrovitz For GM Position

Ken Rosenthal Twitter

Brewers outfielder Shane Peterson has history with one of the men reportedly in the running to be Milwaukee's next general manager.
Milwaukee Official Site