Cardinals Strongly Considered Drafting Jed Lowrie

True, the Red Sox had the No. 47 pick — a pick they used on Michael Bowden. There’s a chance Lowrie would have slid past the Cardinals at No. 46. But that was far from a guarantee.

“We liked Jed Lowrie and certainly had him in strong consideration for that selection,” Jeff Luhnow, the Cardinals’ vice president for player procurement, wrote in an e-mail, declining to go into more detail about the team’s draft board that year. “Jed’s success right now is not a surprise to many of our scouts in the draft room that year.”

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