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Trade machine says the Orioles trade is fairly even thought the Cardinals may need to cover some of Goldy's salary for next season to put it over the top - $6-8 million.
The D-Backs deal is similar to the Rox deal - the Cardinals will need to pay a LOT to make that one happen, but I'd do it. They need to include $40 million in cash to get the deal over the line. That still puts us +$80 million over the next 4+ seasons so yeah, I'm making that deal and including the money.
Surprisingly, the O'Neill deal ended up more jammed up than I thought but it shouldn't be all that surprising - he was ass last season and hurt right now. Ultimately I'd have needed to include someone like Burleson or Gallegos. Gallegos and O'Neill for Civale? Yup - done.
Oh, and I needed to eat about $20 million to ditch Contreras, regardless of where I sent him. So...done.
So in total:
Goldschmidt
Montgomery
Flaherty
Arenado
O'Neill
Gallegos
About $70 million in cash (we'll round up for easy math)
for:
Cowser
Hall
Pfaadt
Civale
That team is much younger, cheaper (on balance) and ultimately will be better as soon as 2024.
And we wouldn't do it in a million years because ownership is !@#$ing gutless.
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