The Cardinals sent a top pitching prospect to the Seattle Mariners for a top power-hitting prospect Friday.
St. Louis traded Marco Gonzales, the club’s first-round draft pick (19th overall) in 2013, to Seattle for outfielder Tyler O’Neill, who is rated as the No. 2 prospect in the Mariners organization according to MLB.com.
“This was more of a traditional trade in the sense that O’Neill was an outfielder with upside in the Mariners organization and Gonzales was a pitcher with upside in our organization,” said John Mozeliak, Cardinals team president of baseball operations, in a team press release.