The St. Louis Cardinals have been quiet over the last two weeks since trading Willson Contreras to the Boston Red Sox. Contreras joined fellow former Cardinal Sonny Gray, who they also traded to Boston as part of their rebuild.
The St. Louis Cardinals still have plenty of work to do this offseason as spring training draws closer. They’ve already made a couple of deals with the Boston Red Sox and signed right-hander Dustin May.
The St. Louis Cardinals are still looking to make deals. Cardinals president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom made that point clear on Sunday while talking about third baseman Nolan Arenado.
We should start to see an influx of movement around Major League Baseball in the very near future. Now, the holidays are fully behind us. We're firmly in 2026 and there's a lot of talent on the board looking to find new teams before Spring Training kicks off in a little over a month.
It's been a busy offseason already for the St. Louis Cardinals, but there are still some major agenda items to check off the list. Trading away Sonny Gray and Willson Contreras, both to the Boston Red Sox, netted the Cardinals a boatload of young pitching.
The Cardinals are in a very familiar place as of late, a place the Cardinals were in all of last offseason, which is a holding pattern of sorts. The holding pattern being caused by potential trades that will probably happen but haven’t yet.
The St. Louis Cardinals' most popular trade candidate right now is Brendan Donovan. While this is the case, the case who has been discussed the most over the last year in general is Nolan Arenado.
It’s been clear since the beginning of the off-season that the St. Louis Cardinals planned to shop Brendan Donovan as nearly every team in the league has some level of interest.
The St. Louis Cardinals have been in transition the past several years. They have recorded two losing seasons in the last three years and missed the playoffs again in 2025.
It is officially 2026 and the two most necessary players for the St. Louis Cardinals to trade remain in the organization as Spring Training is five short weeks away.
It has been quite an odd offseason across Major League Baseball. Things started off with a bang. The St. Louis Cardinals traded Sonny Gray to the Boston Red Sox before the winter meetings and other moves popped up around the league early on.
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The St. Louis Cardinals have tried to buy, win, and contend each season for the past decade. While they've had a little bit of success at times, the overall state of the team has slowly declined.
The St. Louis Cardinals have shown this offseason already that they aren't afraid to make a move under Chaim Bloom. For St. Louis, that has meant multiple trades sending guys out of the organization, including Sonny Gray and Willson Contreras.
It feels like a long time since the St. Louis Cardinals won 93 games and the NL Central title in 2022. After largely standing pat last winter, the Cardinals have finally committed to a teardown under new president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom.
Much ink has been spilled over the last three seasons trying to diagnose and correct the errors that have led to the Cardinals unceremonious tumble from the top of the National League Central division.
The St. Louis Cardinals are seemingly entering a rebuild this offseason, which is the correct move for the team to make going forward. The Cardinals opened up the offseason by trading Sonny Gray to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for some prospects.
The St. Louis Cardinals still have work left to do this offseason. Sonny Gray and Willson Contreras are gone, but there are still trades to make and possibly some players to sign.
The St. Louis Cardinals have done a good job so far this offseason adding much-needed pitching to the organization. Hunter Dobbins and Richard Fitts are solid gets for the organization who could help as soon as Opening Day.
January is here and with that, we should start to see more movement around the league in the very near future. The St. Louis Cardinals will have pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training in 41 days, as of writing.
I am back with an annual update to my series on measuring how teams like the Cardinals do at draft-and-development. This will be a multi-part series. This first installment will essentially add the 2025 season to the numbers and comb out some interesting tidbits, focusing more on the Cardinals than the rest of the league.
The Boston Red Sox were looking to fill their hole at first base. Their second trade of the offseason with the St. Louis Cardinals has provided an answer.