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Cardinals lost Allen Cordoba to the Padres with the #3 overall pick in the Rule 5.
Cordoba won the GCL MVP in 2015 at age 20, then proceeded to wreck the league this year with a .362/.427/.495 slash line, 22 steals to 4 CS and an 18/22 BB/KK rate. Advanced hitter with plus skills at shortstop.
So in other words, a guy that's doing things at 20 and 21 years old that we would KILL to see Delvin Perez accomplish at the same age, and we left him unprotected so that we could keep Zach Duke on the 40 man - a pending FA that won't pitch this year due to TJ surgery. Oh, and so we could also keep Chad Huffman - a 31 yr old 1b who's taken all of 21 major league ABs and none since 2010 as well as Zach Phillips, a 29 yr old lefty reliever who managed an ERA in the high 4s in AAA last year.
And why? Because John !@#$ing Mozeliak sucks at his goddamn job. The guy can't gauge league interest at all. You cut Duke, Huffman and Phillips and you could've kept Hazlebaker, Cooney and Cordoba. Instead you hold onto a guy that will literally not even pitch for you and 2 old guys who have demonstrated that they suck at baseball.
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