DENVER — St. Louis Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak mentioned he’s getting an elevated variety of cellphone calls because the MLB commerce deadline approaches.
For a Cardinals workforce that seemed to be a possible postseason contender within the season’s first half, that is not a optimistic signal in regards to the workforce’s course.
St. Louis is simply 3-7 over its final 10 video games, and that features a three-game sweep by the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks to begin the second half of the season. The Cardinals entered Monday’s sequence opener in Denver in opposition to the Colorado Rockies 3.5 video games out of the ultimate Nationwide League wild-card spot and at 51-49 general, sitting in fourth place within the NL Central.
“Clearly, the place we’re within the standings undoubtedly impacts our decision-making shifting ahead within the buying and selling deadline. So enjoying these three video games (in Arizona after the All-Star break) and dropping all three is just not useful,” Mozeliak mentioned. “Clearly, we needed to return out of the break have a optimistic begin to it. We did not.
“In order we mirror on actually what’s finest for the group, there’s the lengthy overview. Are there selections that we will make that might higher situate the franchise in ’26 and past? So clearly, we have now a variety of gamers that folks have curiosity in, and we have now to kind by way of all that earlier than we make a dedication precisely what a state of affairs would seem like.”
Mozeliak mentioned that the choice about how a lot the Cardinals will promote (and if in any respect) continues to be “fluid” and the franchise is staying “open-minded” about what may occur between now and July 31 at 6 p.m. EST.
“Clearly the weekend was not what we needed to see,” Mozeliak mentioned. “Now we have to know what the longer term seems like.”
That future may embrace one with out All-Star third baseman Nolan Arenado. Underneath contract by way of the 2027 season and armed with a no-trade clause, Arenado rejected a trade to the Houston Astros based mostly on the timeline wanted to swing a deal.
Heading into the commerce deadline, Mozeliak mentioned he would have “a superb understanding” of the place Arenado stood on that, planning to speak to the third baseman about his commerce deadline ideas within the coming days.
Mozeliak indicated he would take heed to all gives on Arenado or different members of the roster.
“Clearly placing feelings apart, if one thing had been to make sense that enables us to really feel like we’re enhancing for the longer term, then it may be price a dialog,” he mentioned. “I do not know if any of that can exist or that’ll occur, however I do not wish to put ourselves in a state of affairs the place we simply do not wish to discover something.”
