Let me first reiterate that this is NOT an actual trade that happened. The move I am referencing was facilitated by myself as I act as the GM of the St. Louis Cardinals for this year’s MLB division Winter Meetings simulation. If you don’t know what that is, there are websites like this one for each MLB team and for the past three years, the people who run those sites have gotten together to do a faux Winter Meetings.
As an acting GM you have to act within the scope of reality as far as salary which means I had to act with a cap of $160M because John Mozeliak said earlier in the offseason that he wants to keep the salary about the same in 2020.