MLB: ****Official STL Cardinals 2021 Thread (ARENADO trade)****
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Agreed. I hope O'Neill can pull it all together. He's reminds me a lot of Randal Grichuk. All the 5 tools are there, just never at the same time.
Read on the PD last night that we still owed Fowler 16.5 milllion for the year, 14.5 as salary, and 2 one million payments from his signing bonus. We are saving 1.75 million by trading him to the Angels.
I tend to think the Cards thought this was dead money either way, so they would save 1.75 million by trading him, thereby opening up a spot in right field allowing the team to give 400 to 500 at bats to O' Neil or whoever and see if they can actually play at this level. The Cards will have Carp. and Martinez coming off the books for next year, plus one of the over priced relievers, with Fowler gone it came to about 60 million freed up, now some of that will have to go to Arenado, but this will give them an opportune to see if O'Neil is our future, someone else in the system or do we need to go out in the FA market next year to find the guy.
I tend to think the Cards thought this was dead money either way, so they would save 1.75 million by trading him, thereby opening up a spot in right field allowing the team to give 400 to 500 at bats to O' Neil or whoever and see if they can actually play at this level. The Cards will have Carp. and Martinez coming off the books for next year, plus one of the over priced relievers, with Fowler gone it came to about 60 million freed up, now some of that will have to go to Arenado, but this will give them an opportune to see if O'Neil is our future, someone else in the system or do we need to go out in the FA market next year to find the guy.
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Totally agree, the moves they've made really set them up to be a major player in free agency/trades next offseason.
Had to. He was a sunk cost. Even if he has a bit of a bounce back year, which I suspect he might, it's money well spent. We need to give these young outfielders a chance on a regular basis so we know what we have. The thought of having Arozarena carrying TB to the World Series while Dex sat at home counting his cash makes me sick. Even Mercado would have looked pretty good in RF in '19 (less so last year.) Good riddance to dead weight.
Getting rid of him was worth the money hit right now.
Derrick Goold of the Post Dispatch reported that we told him more young OFs we’re gonna get his time and he didn’t like it so they agreed to part ways. He had a no trade clause so he obviously waived it to be reunited with Maddon in LA
Not sure if anyone watched, but how cool was it to see Arenado with the birds on the bat jersey yesterday! I also like how they are giving Gorman some run at 2nd base, since Arenado likely has 3rd locked up for quite a while.
