Which MLB team drafted 2026 deadline candidate Jack Flaherty in the first round in 2014?

The St. Louis Cardinals drafted Jack Flaherty in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft.

Flaherty was selected 34th overall, using a compensatory pick the Cardinals received after Carlos Beltrán signed with the New York Yankees. Flaherty had committed to the University of North Carolina, but signed with St. Louis for a reported $2 million bonus and began his professional career in the Cardinals’ system.

The draft team is sometimes confused with Flaherty’s later clubs. He became a major-league starter for St. Louis, then moved through the Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers and Los Angeles Dodgers organizations. Those teams were later employers or trade destinations, not the club that drafted him.