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Twitter people are saying they heard Passan on the radio say it sounds like O'Neill, Bader and Woodford.
That's a fair amount to give up but also not bad. If it were 2 of those 3 nobody bats an eye. And when you're sitting at the negotiating table and there's a 4 pitch lefty available who is 6'5'' with a frame to mature into a guy who works in the mid-90s with a wipeout curveball...well, you can't blink over another valuable if flawed player. You kinda have to just swallow hard and pull the trigger.
My complaint with the Cardinals is they always wait too long on moving a guy. Bader's a season away from having marginal trade value if he can't get the breaking ball shit dialed back. O'neill is in the same boat if he can't stay on the field. Woodford's stuff is 5th starter or swingman.
It's the 3 dimes for a quarter deal I say we should be making all the time. The system churns out LOADS of major leaguers who don't move the needle much. If you can swap several of those for a guy with the potential to slot into the 2 spot behind Flaherty for the next 10 years and give you the sort of L/R combo at the top of your rotation that GMs salivate over, you make the deal.
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