OT: Holliday to St. Louis

youngLion · Post #1 » by **youngLion** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:18 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4353256

The Athletics and Cardinals have completed a trade that sends outfielder Matt Holliday to St. Louis in exchange for third baseman Brett Wallace, outfielder Shane Peterson and right-handed pitcher Clayton Mortensen, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney.

In addition, sources said the Athletics will throw in $1.5 million to the Cardinals.

Avenger · Post #2 » by **Avenger** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:33 pm

Holliday has been on a steady decline and he's put up an unspectacular .831 OPS( for Holliday). I don't know much about Shane Peterson or that pitcher but i know Brett Wallace is gonna be good player. I remember the Jays liked him in the David Cooper draft and he has advanced pretty quickly in the minors. The problem was in an ideal world he's a first baseman and we all know who the Cardinals have at first base, they had plans for him at Third Base but noone knew how it was going to work out. It might be an ok trade if St.Louis can re-ink him to a good deal.

silverhill27 · Post #3 » by **silverhill27** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:43 pm

weird, you'd think they'd target a left handed bat to complement derosa pujols and ludwick

zilby · Post #4 » by **zilby** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:12 pm

nice move for STL. holliday is a good player but bad because they gave up prospects for a 2 month rental

Modern_epic · Post #5 » by **Modern_epic** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:55 pm

I would guess he will be a Type B FA, so if he is only a two month rental, they will get a prospect back at the end of it.