On Tuesday, the Cardinals – to somewhat of a surprise – traded Sonny Gray. Most encouragingly, they traded Sonny Gray and picked up $20 million of the check. Well, I was wrong in two ways. I thought Gray had limited his trade pool more than he had and I did not expect Bill Dewitt to greenlight paying for a prospect (at least to this extent). Had my assumptions been different, I would have been more firmly on the trade Sonny Gray bandwagon. As it stands, I was a skeptic.

One way to look at this is that the Cardinals traded Sonny Gray for Richard Fitts; and they traded $20 million in cash for Brandon Clarke. I am of course oversimplfying. It’s difficult to say how Fitts and Clarke are valued – some sources have them as top 100 prospects; in Fitts’ case, a former top 100 prospect as he has g

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