Okay, so Plan A has, all along, been to trade for Giancarlo Stanton. Makes sense, too; Stanton checks so many of the boxes the Cards are looking to check, and they seem to have a unique situation favouring such an acquisition. Plan B, however, has been a little murkier. Actually, that’s a bit of an equivocation; Plan B has basically been anyone’s guess so far. And really, those guesses made by anyone have tended to be more about the guesser’s personal preference than anything concrete.
We’ve heard the Cards vaguely linked to Yu Darvish and Jake Arrieta, vaguely not-linked to J.