14 Months Ago, Derrick Goold from St. Louis Post-Dispatch says (in St. Louis Cardinals Community Top 30: Falling through the cracks (No. 22)) So who are the better gets in the Cardinals’ organization? Garcia was coveted before his Tommy John surgery. Mitchell Boggs has attracted suitors. Rasmus, of course. Brett Wallace will (can’t trade him for a year after his pick). And then there is the unexpected name, the prospect that has sl...

And Derrick Goold from St. Louis Post-Dispatch says (in St. Louis Cardinals Community Top 30: Runoff for 21) 30-

SOUTH GRAND — Already the closest vote in two years of doing the (Bird Land) Community Top 30, the poll for No. 21 produced something even more remarkable while, numbed by baseball’s sputtering hot stove, we caught up on Christmas shopping this weekend.

And Derrick Goold from St. Louis Post-Dispatch says (in St. Louis Cardinals Community Top 30: Best Bang for the Biggest Bonus (voting No. 21)) 30-

TOWER GROVE — The St. Louis Cardinals thought enough of the talent available in the pool of international free agents this past summer to basically pass on the year before. Rather than blow the budget in 2007, they wanted to have the cash to contend for players in 2008.

15 Months Ago, Derrick Goold from St. Louis Post-Dispatch says (in Cardinals Community Top 30: The bigger picture & vote for No. 16) When ranking players within one team’s system, they are only compared against each other. There are going to be 10 top-10 prospects because the exercise demands it. But throw two other organizations into the mix, throw the systems from the whole National League Central in the conversatio...