DeRo traded to Cards

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The Cards are also going after Matt Holliday or Jermaine Dye. If they get one of those guys to go along with DeRosa, it will put them over the top. DeRosa will help more than you think.
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Actually, I think this move greatly diminishes their interest in those guys.
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How can they afford either of those two?
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I don't think they can, I think getting DeRosa is their move from the offensive side.
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I think Holliday is out of the question, but I could definitely see KW pretty much handing over Dye to the Cards just so they'd have a better shot to take the Cubs down.
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That's not reality either. As much as KW appears to hate the Cubs, he's not doing that either. It'd have to be a package that blows him away too, Dye's gonna be a type A FA.

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Something to keep in mind, rubes: I think things are changing with regards to free agents. Teams are going to be much less likely to offer arbitration - especially to aging guys - for fear that they'll accept and get way more money than they would on the market. And guys are going to be much more likely to accept for the same reason.