Should the Cardinals buy or sell? Chaim Bloom’s deadline plan

Dustin May of the St. Louis Cardinals celebrates after recording the third out of the eighth inning against the San Diego Padres

The St. Louis Cardinals announced a change in the chain of command yesterday, but the majority of us believe this is how things were mostly run anyway. With the shift, though, my personal hope is that Bill DeWitt III and Anuk Karunaratne will defer all baseball related decisions to Chaim Bloom and his staff.

The press conference touched on some of those ideas, with Bloom mentioning that this team could play its way into a slight deviation from the plan but DeWitt Jr. also stating that rentals are off the table. Changing the plan would be a big shift after hearing that the long-term has always been the focus. The team’s recent play, though, may call for a pause on any of those additions and it appears more likely we will see players traded away.

On the latest episode of Cardinals on My Time, I had a trio of content creators break down seemingly all angles of what the Cardinals could do during this trade deadline. We touched on the typical trade pieces, but there was also some disagreement for who we think stays or goes. Let me know where you agree or disagree with what we said!