{"id":214251,"date":"2025-07-30T23:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/214251\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:24:13","slug":"pair-of-cardinals-all-stars-linked-to-blue-jays-in-trade-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/214251\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Cardinals All-Stars linked to Blue Jays in trade proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals find themselves in a teeter-tottering position at this year&#8217;s MLB trade deadline, do they buy or sell?<\/p>\n<p>The team is still hanging on in the NL Wild Card race, but it&#8217;s by a thread as currently sit fourth in the NL Central, 4.5 games out of the Wild Card and 9.5 behind the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And should the team turn to the selling side, there are two elite options they have that could get them a haul in third baseman Nolan Arenado and closer Ryan Helsley, and according to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/onsi\/fantasy\/mlb\/mlb-mock-trade-cardinals-deal-nolan-arenado-ryan-helsley-toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Shawn Childs of Fantasy Sports On SI,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> Shawn Childs of Fantasy Sports On SI,<\/a>\u00a0that could result in a package deal instead of individual trades that could send both of them to the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>The trade works out perfectly in both teams&#8217; favor, as the Blue Jays have needed a third baseman ever since Matt Chapman left for the San Francisco Giants, and with Helsley approached free agency, it would simply make more sense to include the flame-throwing closer in on the deal as well.<\/p>\n<p>Childs&#8217; trade proposal would have the Blue Jays giving up starting pitcher Johnny King and second baseman Orelvis Martinez, both of whom have been stellar this season in the minor leagues.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Cardinals, this trade would force them to either move Nolan Gorman to third base or to call up their own high-caliber prospect in J.J. Wetherholt, whom the team drafted with the seventh overall pick in last year&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Cardinals find themselves in a teeter-tottering position at this year&#8217;s MLB trade deadline, do they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,379,59,4,3449,1028,1893,109,66,37091,67,282,70,2553,37090,8920],"class_list":{"0":"post-214251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-matt-chapman","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-trade-deadline","15":"tag-nolan-arenado","16":"tag-nolan-gorman","17":"tag-ryan-helsley","18":"tag-san-francisco-giants","19":"tag-shawn-childs","20":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","21":"tag-toronto","22":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","23":"tag-torontobluejays","24":"tag-trade-works","25":"tag-wild-card-race"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114944769724517636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}