Well, it’s official. The Cardinals are going to sell. They theoretically have a chance to surprise us in the final two months, but it will be made infinitely harder when the Cardinals sell. The series loss to the Cubs guarantees the Cardinals will sell, if there was any doubt. The Cardinals had a chance to make it difficult to sell, and well they made it incredibly easy this weekend. So... they’ve got that going for them.
But the longer lasting effects of what happened this weekend won’t affect the Cardinals in the short term. Unless they get a head start on the trading deadline, we are likely to see the current iteration of the Cardinals’ for the last time this week.