{"id":24534,"date":"2025-02-08T22:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T22:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24534"},"modified":"2025-02-08T22:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T22:20:34","slug":"breaking-latest-cardinals-trade-could-fuel-rumors-of-nolan-arenados-move-to-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24534","title":{"rendered":"“BREAKING: Latest Cardinals Trade Could Fuel Rumors of Nolan Arenado’s Move to the Yankees!”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trusted insider\u00a0Jack Curry ruled the New York Yankees out of the Nolan Arenado market<\/a>\u00a0before the Paul Goldschmidt-tinged rumors had even left our collective tongue in December, but with third base still undermanned and spring training approaching, things\u00a0could\u00a0<\/em>change.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t seem to be Brian Cashman’s preference that they\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>change, but if the Cardinals’ desperation reaches heretofore unseen levels, it now seems plausible that the Yankees will at least consider the 34-year-old future Hall of Famer at his current cost. He’s a poor ballpark fit. He’s at the wrong portion of the aging curve. His lingering back issue could cut his career short, much like it did for Don Mattingly in the early ’90s. But he costs …\u00a0how<\/em>\u00a0much?! Yeah, we’ll engage.<\/p>\n

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When Cardinals head honcho John Mozeliak admitted in mid-January that\u00a0trading Arenado was their “Plan 1, 2 and 3,”\u00a0<\/a>Cashman’s ears had to have perked up a bit. Now, the waiting game has led to St. Louis reportedly “re-engaging” the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers on the 10-time Gold Glover in recent days. They also made a minor deal to add infield depth in the form of\u00a0Michael Helman, a budding Twins utility man<\/a>. It’s not as if they lacked infield depth before, though, especially with top prospect Thomas Saggese threatening to make the MLB roster soon.<\/p>\n

Are the Cardinals adding bodies in anticipation of replacing Arenado? And would they reconsider the\u00a0Yankees’ offer of shorter-term Marcus Stroman money plus a prospect<\/a>, which may or may not have even been floated in the first place, but would certainly be nice?<\/p>\n

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