Keep Arenado Unless or Until...

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The move is to trade NA.

I don't care how impressed we are by his 3b defense, he has been bad the last two years and has two years left on his deal. He doesn't want to be here and it shows when the Cards are losing.

Given the direction the Cards are going, I have no idea why people are advocating keeping him.

Sounds like he wants out. Cool. Bye.

To trade him, we would have to eat his salary, without having a 3B replacement. I think that’s what the objection is to.

1. Yes, eat salary.
2. There is life after Arenado. Surely our organizational depth chart at 3b isn't just one guy.

So maybe we see, like, Prieto there. Who cares????

I care. It could be a lot worse than Nado at 3b.

And if we eat his salary and get no savings to invest elsewhere (or BDW just spends the tiny savings on his grandkids), then there's no point to it. Trading him is just a distraction to fixing even bigger problems in the OF/rotation and his payroll is already a sunk cost.

Now IF we had a true top 3B prospect just waiting in the wings (not a SS/2bman), then its another story, but I don't even know who that would be. No one on MLB's list even looks that close and GG caliber:
https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/3b/

“Don’t trade him because they won’t do anything w the money saved!”

How do you know?

If only the money saved goes to helping to signing Donovan for the next 4-5 it be good.
2B, 3B, SS fairly solid with BD,JJ, and MW.