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Originally Posted by O.city
Fans would have hated it, but I still contend the move was to sell last trade deadline. Move Carp, Peralta, Holliday whoever anyone wanted and restock the farm.
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Fans would've understood it.
Mozeliak using the fans as a shield to protect DeWitt's profit margin is irritating as hell.
Yes, the team absolutely should have sold to buttress the next wave of talent. What they seem inclined to do is try to tread water until it gets here instead. That might work, but they have to go all in on that route.
They can't be done. They need a new core with someone like Turner to hold down the fort until Perez, Sierra and Sosa are ready to come up and prove themselves. They need to fill 4 years, essentially, and bridge the gap until Reyes, Martinez, Weaver, Piscotty, Grichuk, Bader, Perez, Sierra, Sosa, Kelly and Diaz are the new core (with a few of those guys perhaps traded to address 1b).
But Bader, Perez, Sierra, Sosa and Kelly are a long ways away and have enough rough edges that you can't just assume they'll get here at all. Grichuk's flaws are obvious and Piscotty ran headlong into the wall last year.
But it sure would've been nice to find another couple of big-time pieces to include in that group. Whatever happens, the Cardinals cannot have another 3-year stretch like they had in that 2013ish range where they are going to produce very very little. They need Flores to be a homerun hire because the gap in the high minors in this system (that I've been talking about for 2 years now) has hit us and hit us hard. Even if the Cards wanted to be in these trade wars, they simply don't have the advanced firepower to pull it off.
That cannot happen if they want to keep things rolling.