Latest Nolan Arenado Report Will Shake Things Up For Cardinals

"For Nolan Arenado, the one-time prized trade acquisition brought to St. Louis to ensure better results, it marked another disappointment," Woo said. "He expects to be involved in offseason trade discourse again. However, this time, he’s aware he’ll have to make some concessions. Arenado will expand his list of teams he’d waive his no-trade clause for, he revealed Wednesday, and he’ll be more open-minded to the trade process overall this winter.

"'I think I have to be,' Arenado said to Woo. 'That’s something I’ll discuss with my agent and my family. I think the discussion I’ll have with my agent for sure is that the list will be different.' Still, it stings to know he likely won’t have another chance at it with this organization...'

"Arenado agreeing to expand his options will help, but ownership will almost certainly need to rethink its stance on Arenado’s contract. To give Mozeliak’s successor, Chaim Bloom, the best shot in facilitating a trade, ownership will need to be willing to pay significantly more of the remainder of Arenado’s contract — roughly $40 million over the next two years."

As the chatter around Arenado has grown over the last year, this idea of his no-trade clause has continously been brought up. Now, it sounds like he has softened and in doing so, that will shake things up for the Cardinals. If St. Louis can trade him, then that obviously opens up third base for a younger guy to see what they can do. JJ Wetherholt, perhaps? We'll see, but this is a big update nonetheless.