2016, 23rd overall, DELVIN PEREZ, SS, n/a bWAR. (not yet signed) With Plummer and Perez, it’s the first time the Cardinals have selected high schoolers with back-to-back first picks since 1990-91. The Cardinals and Perez’s representatives don’t expect to have much trouble coming to an agreement. The team and his agent are also discussing how best to make Perez available to the media for the first time since the Cardinals’ shocking pick this past Thursday. In the days leading up to the draft, it was revealed that Perez had tested positive for a PED. That sent a possible top-five talent tumbling out of the top 10 and all the way down to No. 23. He was not a player the Cardinals expected to be available – but new draft guru Randy Flores made it a point to see most of the top players available to help him gather a personal Rolodex of talent that he could use to compare players against for years to come. He wanted to know what top-five talent looked like for himself. He just didn’t expect to draft it. So, here Perez is. The Cardinals took some PR bruising for the selection, but it was a bold pick – one that the Cardinals have not made in the past.