I don’t have many positives to say about this deal, simply because Chasen Shreve didn’t give me many reasons to be positive about his performance with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2018. It is cheap, at $900K with $400K in performance incentives, but that’s about all I can think of in terms of true positives. It’s not too terrible, but it’s nothing to be particularly excited about.
He was mediocre at best for the St. Louis Cardinals this season, and the general consensus even before the trade was that Shreve was characteristically average, to put it lightly.