In Search For An
Outfielder – St. Louis Cardinals
So far, we have
identified the following outfielders as possible targets for the Mets:
Atlanta – Reed Johnson
Arizona
– A.J. Pollock
Baltimore – Nolan Reimold
Boston
– Jerry Sands
Chicago
Cubs – Brett Jackson
Chicago White Sox - Dayan Viciedo
Cincinnati – Chris Heisey
Cleveland – Thomas Neal -
Colorado – Dexter Fowler
Detroit – none
Houston – J.D. Martinez
Kansas City – none
Los Angeles Angels – Mark Trumbo
Los Angeles Dodgers – Alex Castellanos
Miami Marlins – Gorkys Hernandez
Milwaukee Brewers – Khris Davis
Minnesota Twins – None
Oakland Athletics – Grant Green
New York Yankees – None
Philadelphia Phillies - none
Pittsburgh – Jose Tabata
Seattle – Casper Wells
San Diego – James Darnell
San Francisco – Gary Brown
We now move on to the
St. Louis Cardinals, who currently have only six (6) outfielders on their
40-man roster:
Carlos
Beltran – switch – $13mil-2013 – FA-2014 – MLB, 547-AB, 32-HR, 97-RBI - RF
Adron
Chambers- lefty – pre-ARB -
Allen
Craig – righty – ABB1-2014 – (1B)
- MLB, 469-AB, .307 - RF
Matt
Holliday – righty – $17mil thru
2016 – LF – 599-AB, 27-HR, 102-RBI
Jon Jay –
lefty – ARB1- 2014 – MLB, 443-AB, .305 -
CF
Shane
Robinson – righty - ARB1 – 2015 –
The bottom line here
is the combination of Beltran-Craig-Holiday-Jay is one of the best 4 outfielder
group in the game. There’s obviously no reason for St. Louis to make any
changes with these four ofr the 2013 season.
Prospect wise, Oscar
Tavares will play AAA in 2013.
This leaves either
Chambers or Robinson, neither of which are going to make the HOF some day;
however, Robinson would give the Mets a three-year MLB level player to settle
down the outfield for a year.
Mets target: Shane Robinson – plays all three outfield positions…
team controlled salary… 3-year MLB stat
line with St. Louis: .242/.293/.333/.626, 198-AB, 3-HR, 17-RBI… only 2 MLB
errors
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