Since the 2023 trade deadline, the St. Louis Cardinals have shifted strategy by trading veteran players for prospects. Driven by management changes aimed at rebuilding the farm system, these transactions targeted long-term depth rather than immediate major league impact. How have they worked out?
The trade deadline is Monday, August 3rd, and I expect the Cardinals to be active. I'm hoping as sellers because this team is close, but they won't compete in the post season with how the roster is currently constructed.
The Cardinals announced that they have signed 29 of their pre-arbitration service time players to contracts for the '26 season & that SS Masyn Winn has opted to have his contract renewed. The team now has all players on its 40-player MLB roster under contract for the season.
The #STLCards announced the team has reduced its #SpringTraining roster to 57 players today, with 11 players moving to #MiLB camp. #cardinals #forthelou #mlb #baseball
We're at the front half of the teens of the Top 50 #Cardinals Prospects, & we get even closer to the guys that might make an MLB impact. 3 of the 5 came from the draft, including 1 from this last draft. #stlcards #forthelou #mlb #milb #prospects
Last time I looked at what the #Cardinals should do; now we look at what's starting to happened, at least rumored to happen. Everything here came out over the last 5 days or so; older rumors are so out of date or over-reported that I'm not going to include them. #stlcards #forthelou #mlb #baseball #tradedeadline #rumors
The Cardinals today announced their selections for Minor League Player & Pitcher of the Month for May, w/ Springfield Cardinals RHSP Tekoah Roby & Palm Beach Cardinals C Rainiel Rodriguez taking home the honors.
The big league club was off yesterday, but all the affiliates played (and not well). 4 system games tonight. There were a couple of system transactions and some former Cardinal news.
The St. Louis Cardinals announced Saturday that they have signed all of their pre-arbitration service time players to contracts for the 2025 season.
With the offseason nearing an end, here is the '25 Cardinals Salary Matrix. I've left '24 on their for now since there are buyouts from declined options. I have the projected arbitration salaries from MLBTR for those going through arbitration. I've also added as many of the pre-arb numbers as possible; those without a full year service time could be wrong, but I'll update them as I get clarification.
