The St. Louis Cardinals’ pitchers are lighting up the AFL

While the St. Louis Cardinals are eliminated from postseason play, they still have prospects playing baseball. How have the team’s prospects done out West?

While fans still sit in the gloom of how the St. Louis Cardinals finished their season, there are plenty of things to be happy about still. There isn’t ever really an end to the baseball season and right now, the Arizona Fall League is going on and the Cardinals have eight players playing for the Glendale Desert Dogs with the best of their peers.

The six-week league is where each team sends its best prospects to continue getting them work and to test them against the best of the best. Often times, players who are right on the fringe of breaking into the league compete in the AFL and are seen in the MLB soon after. Performing well in the AFL is a great way for prospects to garner national attention as well.

In 2019, the Cardinals sent pitchers Seth Elledge, Roel Ramirez, Griffin Roberts, and Kodi Whitley and position players Ivan Herrera, Elehuris Montero, Kramer Robertson, and Conner Kapel. The most notable player left off the AFL rosters was the Cardinals’ number one prospect, Dylan Carlson. The team planned to send Carlson but pulled him back right before, asking him to work on building strength over the offseason instead.

We will not only look at the pitchers who are lighting up the AFL, but also the batters.