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Originally Posted by tk13
I get he has health issues but the Cardinals didn't get that much for 3 years of Tommy Pham. I'm kind of surprised by that. Guy was looking like a star player last year. Went 20/20 with a 900 OPS. This trade market is brutal.
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I have a great explanation for you: John Mozeliak is incompetent.
He thinks that two dimes and a nickel are worth more than a quarter, when in baseball it's precisely the opposite.
The Cardinals should be doing the opposite of this trade: stacking multiple prospects with average starter upside for someone with 4-6 WAR upside. That's why the team is so average right now. He's sought out players with average floors and low ceilings. That's how you get a team that has one position player over 2 WAR almost 110 games into the season.
Hell, at least when you got a middling return for Herrera it was for 4 months of him, not 3.3 years.
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