I would love to know what happened with the Cards. it looked like this was on the verge of getting done on Tuesday PM, then went very cold very quick.
Cards have excess OFers, at least 8 by my count: Holliday, Bourjos, Taveras, Craig, Jay, Grichuk, Piscotty, Pham, any one of the last 5 of which you would think the Cards would want to move and would be of interest to the Sox. We have some "excess pitching" which you would think would be of interest to the Cards.
Total speculation here of course, but I wonder if the Cards were looking for another player to go with large salary relief on Peavy. The Sox balked and tried to get another team engaged, hence the Braves rumors. Also I wonder if the Cards got pissed with some leaks.
In any event, what about Peavy, plus $$, and Barnes, for Grichuk, who is the guy I think we should target. I would hate to lose Wright at this point in time, but it has to be considered for the right return.
Would we want Jay? He has better numbers than I realized, including at the minor league level. Maybe he is a fit, if you think we are at risk of getting too righty heavy. On a quick look of the stat page, Pham strikes me of the least interest.
All this in the context of some nagging doubts about Mookie in RF. I think I like him better in LF, which leaves us still to find a potential RF of the future, in Shane's absence, which is not Craig, IMO.