The St. Louis Cardinals will evaluate their roster for logical trade candidates this winter as the front office looks to reduce payroll for 2025. Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak has already announced that the big-league roster won't be prioritized, so St.
Nick Gonzales delivered a game-winning single in the eighth for the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday at Busch Stadium to salvage the series. The Pirates (72-81) broke a scoreless tie in the top of the fourth when Bryan De La Cruz followed Nick Gonzales’ triple with a sacrifice fly to center.
The Cardinals have a lot of good sliders on the staff and many of them have been developed in St. Louis. The St. Louis Cardinals pitching staff has been pretty mediocre this year.
The only two things rarer in modern-day baseball than the four-homer game is the Triple Crown and the unassisted triple play. The former is, of course, done over an entire season, while there's a large level of lucky in the unassisted triple play.
The St. Louis Cardinals currently are in contention for a National League Wild Card spot but if things change, they could end up being sellers around the trade deadline.
The St. Louis Cardinals have been on a roll the past few weeks and it's too early to tell whether they will sell or buy at this summer's trade deadline.