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Originally Posted by Marco Polo
Mo has not taken the idea of trading Carlos Martinez off the table. What are your thoughts? Would you package Carlos and include Fowler for salary relief in a deal?
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Why on earth would you include Fowler in a deal with Carlos Martinez?
Carlos is the best thing the Cardinals have to offer and you would kill the return you got for him by throwing in a guy with a .556 OPS making $16.5M for the next 3 years plus whatever he has left this year. To lessen the sting on the return the Cards would probably have to eat damn near all of that contract.
About the best you could do with Fowler is look for another teams garbage and make a Gyorko/Kemp type trade and hope for the best.
EDIT: Forgot the Cardinals gave Fowler a full NTC so you'll probably just have to release him.