Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak admitted Wednesday that trading away 25-year-old outfielder Randy Arozarena appears to be a mistake.
"I will own that," Mozeliak said, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Derrick Goold. "That's on me. You need to know your own players. We will revisit how we rank our own players and make sure that we don't have something like this happen again."
Arozarena was dealt last January in a deal that him, first baseman José Martínez and future considerations to the Rays in exchange for left-handed pitching prospect Matthew Liberatore, catcher Edgardo Rodriguez and future considerations.