Juan Soto wouldn’t have been worth it for the St. Louis Cardinals to trade Dylan Carlson/Nolan Gorman and Jordan Walker.
www.stltoday.com
Benjamin Hochman
You wanted
Juan Soto.
Yes, of course, who wouldn’t have wanted Juan Soto on their baseball team?
But
as I wrote 13 days ago:
Even for a win-now, splurge-“Mo”-splurge guy like myself, the idea of the Cardinals trading for Juan Soto is a tough one to back.
So here we are, deadline day, and Soto is heading to San Diego.
“Obviously, you saw what they got in return,” said John “Mo” Mozeliak, the Cardinals’ president of baseball operations, after the deadline Tuesday. “So, it was better than we were willing to do.”
So what did they do?
They got pitching.
Yes, I would’ve preferred a splurge for
Pablo Lopez (Marlins) or
Carlos Rodon (Giants), but neither guy was dealt, so it’s not like the Cards were out-bid for those fellows.
Instead the Cards got, well, you probably know their names by now. But approach it this way: If I told you the Cards would get two lefty starters with a 3.50 ERA and a 3.69 ERA, would you have been happy with it?
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good read