stltoday.com - 5/30/2008
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TOWER GROVE — The last bundle of mail exchanged between readers and the Cardinals vice president of player procurement and farm director Jeff Luhnow featured some of the finer-tuned questions in this couple weeks of PostCards.
Of specific interest to readers is the idea of cost-benefit analysis when it comes the draft. There were many questions about it over the past two weeks and I ...
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Daily Farm Report - 5/29/08
Future Redbirds —
... Derrick Goold posted the third and final installment in his “PostCards with Luhnow” series today. Also, the guys at Major League Jerk posted a first round mock draft. They’ve got the Cardinals taking high school first baseman Eric Hosmer. That would certainly be a departure for the Cardinals.
Anyway, the system went 3-2 on the night - all the details are after the jump.
Memphis 4, Iowa 5
Colby Rasmus was moved back up to the #2 slot in the lineup and he responded by going 2-5 ...
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