If everything breaks right, the Cardinals have an ace with this pick, which they desperately need, considering their old and mostly underwhelming rotation. While the Cardinals look like winners, there are four other teams that crushed it in the MLB Draft as well.

The Chicago Cubs finished Day 1 of the MLB Draft on Sunday evening, making three total selections. In the first round with the 17th pick, the Cubs selected Ethan Conrad, a center fielder out of Wake Forest.

To this point, look no further than Jamie Arnold, who established himself as one of the top pitching prospects in the 2025 Draft after a stellar sophomore season at Florida State and reasserted his promise in his junior season as he sits at No. 4 on MLB Pipeline's Draft Top 250.

I wrote a whole column in Sunday’s paper on why the Cardinals should draft lefty Jamie Arnold at No. 5 — but this was because I assumed lefty Liam Doyle surely would’ve been drafted by No. 5. Instead,