How about Donovan to the Mets for...

[The Nard]

It’s amazing how so many want to trade your best 2players (imo) - Donovan and Sonny Gray - for prospects. Prospects take several years to develop, and then it’s only a 50-50 shot that they’ll become stars. So then, you’ll be in the same positions in 2026 and 2027. You’ll become the new Pirates or White Sox.

And I do expect that those of you pushing for these trades, will be the same ones complaining about Blooms choices and the team’s performance over the next few years

Happens every season.

[ecleme22]

It’s amazing how so many want to trade your best 2players (imo) - Donovan and Sonny Gray - for prospects. Prospects take several years to develop, and then it’s only a 50-50 shot that they’ll become stars. So then, you’ll be in the same positions in 2026 and 2027. You’ll become the new Pirates or White Sox.

And I do expect that those of you pushing for these trades, will be the same ones complaining about Blooms choices and the team’s performance over the next few years

Happens every season.

Let's remember this: Cards fans aren't that familiar with trading players for prospects. And your experience with it comes under Mo's helm. So yeah, you're probably used to a Saggese who takes 3 years to develop and doesn't seem too promising.

This is what could happen:
1. The team will trade BD and SG.
2. The team will get back 2-4 prospects, with 1-2 close to MLB ready.
3. The team will save $45mil
4. The team will use some of that money to sign FA to 1 year deals.
5. The team will probably move 1-2 players at the deadline for more prospects.

Conclusion: The team now will have roughly 4-8 more prospects and MORE money than they have right now.

These 4-8 prospects will be ON TOP OF all our other prospects. So now, in just one year, you have organizational depth, more trading chips, a cost-controlled foundation, a spreading of risk (not counting on 1 prospect to be good), and a lot more money to spend in FA.

This isn't what the White Sox do. It's what the Brewers and Rays do...

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How many times does it need to be said that Donovan is going to test free agency in 2 years and will not sign a hometown discount extension? And that the Cardinals are not handing out costly extensions now anyway in the middle of a rebuild? He has value now. Cash it in high while he still has 2 years of control.

[dugoutrex]

Knee-jerk reaction is no, but the more I think about it, it could be a gamble worth taking if and only if...

1) you flip him at the '26 deadline/'26 offseason for prospects, and 2) you throw the saved money at another lottery ticket like Dustin May (who you'll then also flip at the deadline).

I know this is a different mindset than in any of the last 28 years, but we need to think more in terms of who can Bloom sign and then flip. Having Senga in the rotation for the next two years here in STL accomplishes next to nothing. Whomever we get for Donovan needs to be on the roster and contributing in 2028.

How about just skipping a step and flipping Donovan for prospects? He has verified high demand and is much more a sure thing.

Raiders of the Lost Ark... guy with a Scimitar performs a 30 second dance with the sword right before he's set to attack Indiana Jones...Jones takes his gun and shoots him....I laughed so hard in the theater when I saw that as a teenager.

All that effort for nothing....over with in a split second.

triple Lindy ?