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.