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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I can make an argument to add Heyward AND another OFer.
You put Piscotty/Moss as platoon options at 1b, Heyward in CF, Holliday in LF and, for me, Upton in RF (though in this scenario it's evidently Gordon). Grichuk/Pham are available bench bats with Diaz/Garcia, Adams, Pena, Piscotty/Moss as the rest of your bench.
Then you dump Jay for a bucket of balls. If you have to eat salary, so be it. The guy serves no purpose here if Heyward's on the team.
Holliday's going to get hurt frequently anyway, not to mention the injury history of Pham and Grichuk. There will be a few weeks here and there where it's tough to find playing time for all of them, but I also expect that Holliday, Moss, Adams, Pham and Grichuk will all spend time on the DL at some point.
To whatever extent you've created a log-jam, it's a problem for a single season, after which you decline the option on Holliday, let Moss walk in FA and now you have Upton - Grichuk - Heyward in the OF w/ Piscotty/Adams at 1b long-term and Pham as a nice 4th OFer.
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That's not a bad long-term strategy if you want to drop $350 million into two OFs this season, but if the Cardinals were worried at all about their OF depth, they wouldn't have waived Bourjos.
Every OF on the ML Roster right now, save Pham, has significant experience playing in the COF and three of them can play center. Hell, even Moss can play a COF spot at about the same ghastly level as Holliday.
It just seems like that approach shuffles around multiple deck chairs, spends a lot of money, and still doesn't fix the biggest hole on the team, first, with a guy whose bat would profile as good for the position.