DENVER — St. Louis Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak stated he’s getting an elevated variety of telephone calls because the MLB commerce deadline approaches.
For a Cardinals crew that a possible postseason contender within the season’s first half, that is not a optimistic signal concerning the crew’s route.
St. Louis is simply 3-7 over its final 10 video games, and that features a three-game sweep by the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks to start out the second half of the season. The Cardinals entered Monday’s collection opener in Denver towards the Colorado Rockies 3.5 video games out of the ultimate Nationwide League wild-card spot and at 51-49 total, sitting in fourth place within the NL Central.
“Clearly, the place we’re within the standings positively impacts our decision-making shifting ahead within the buying and selling deadline. So taking part in these three video games (in Arizona after the All-Star break) and shedding all three is just not useful,” Mozeliak stated. “Clearly, we wished to return out of the break have a optimistic begin to it. We did not.
“In order we replicate on actually what’s finest for the group, there may be the lengthy overview. Are there selections that we are able to make that will higher situate the franchise in ’26 and past? So clearly, now we have plenty of gamers that folks have curiosity in, and now we have to type via all that earlier than we make a dedication precisely what a situation would appear to be.”
Mozeliak stated that the choice about how a lot the Cardinals will promote (and if in any respect) continues to be “fluid” and the franchise is staying “open-minded” about what might occur between now and July 31 at 6 p.m. EST.
“Clearly the weekend was not what we wished to see,” Mozeliak stated. “Now we have got to know what the long run seems like.”
That future might embrace one with out All-Star third baseman Nolan Arenado. Underneath contract via the 2027 season and armed with a no-trade clause, Arenado rejected a commerce to the Houston Astros primarily based on the timeline wanted to swing a deal.
Heading into the commerce deadline, Mozeliak stated he would have ” understanding” of the place Arenado stood on that, planning to speak to the third baseman about his commerce deadline ideas within the coming days.
Mozeliak indicated he would hearken to all gives on Arenado or different members of the roster.
“Clearly placing feelings apart, if one thing had been to make sense that enables us to really feel like we’re enhancing for the long run, then it may be value a dialog,” he stated. “I do not know if any of that may exist or that’ll occur, however I do not need to put ourselves in a state of affairs the place we simply do not need to discover something.”
