St. Louis Cardinals Rumors: Cards Should Accept Trade For Lorenzo Cain and Wade Davis

The Winter Meetings have swung into full swing and the St. Louis Cardinals are busily shopping. In shopping, the rumor mill has already linked the Cardinals to several potential deals.

I absolutely LOVE the MLB Winter Meetings. I love teams wheeling and dealing and love when our St. Louis Cardinals are in the thick of things. The 2016 winter meetings were somewhat sleepy and my phone’s battery was not put the test as it was yesterday.

This year’s meetings have kicked off with a flurry of rumors. Every single team in the MLB know that the Redbirds are seeking outfield help and this has lead the baseball writers to attach the Cardinals to any team with a pulse and “spare” outfielder. Thanks to this blizzard of activity, my phone died multiple times on Monday.

Monday night brought Mozeliak sharing with fans that the organization held many meetings with agents on Monday but that nothing was imminent. Great… so my phone died for smoke bearing no real fire! There was one connection on Monday- not yet completely confirmed- that I think the St. Louis Cardinals honestly need to consider.

Before moving into this, let me share here that we know now- on Tuesday morning- that the St. Louis Cardinals did meet with agents for Dexter Fowler and did make an initial offer. That is the extent of our knowledge at this point aside from the fact that no announcement has come of Fowler signing with the Cardinals.

So what was offered?

Yesterday, Trevor covered Lorenzo Cain for us here at Redbird Rants and I recommend that you jump over and read it. Here are the highlights of Trevor’s review on Cain: his 2016 season was shortened (played in only 103 games), batted .287 with nine home runs, stole fourteen bases, and he earned a 9.2 UZR in center in the limited exposure in 2016.

How about Wade Davis? Davis served as the Royals’ closer in forty games in 2016 while appearing in forty-five games. This oft-dominant closer would be really interesting to add to the back end of the Cardinals pen. Can you imagine the end of games with Kevin Siegrist, Trevor Rosenthal, Davis, and Seung Hwan Oh?

Check out these numbers:

Year	Age	Tm	W	L	ERA	G	GS	GF	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA+	FIP	WHIP
2009	23	TBR	2	2	3.72	6	6	0	0	36.1	33	15	2	13	36	118	2.90	1.266
2010	24	TBR	12	10	4.07	29	29	0	0	168.0	165	76	24	62	113	96	4.79	1.351
2011	25	TBR	11	10	4.45	29	29	0	0	184.0	190	91	23	63	105	85	4.67	1.375
2012	26	TBR	3	0	2.43	54	0	15	0	70.1	48	19	5	29	87	159	2.78	1.095
2013	27	KCR	8	11	5.32	31	24	2	0	135.1	169	80	15	58	114	78	4.18	1.677
2014	28	KCR	9	2	1.00	71	0	11	3	72.0	38	8	0	23	109	396	1.19	0.847
2015 ★	29	KCR	8	1	0.94	69	0	24	17	67.1	33	7	3	20	78	448	2.29	0.787
2016 ★	30	KCR	2	1	1.87	45	0	40	27	43.1	33	9	0	16	47	234	2.29	1.131
8 Yrs	55	37	3.53	334	88	92	47	776.2	709	305	72	284	689	113	3.69	1.279
162 Game Avg.	9	6	3.53	54	14	15	8	125	114	49	12	46	111	113	3.69	1.279

Would you take Davis? Would you take the deal with Davis for Kolten Wong plus a prospect or two? I’ve read that this prospect could be Luke Weaver or the mentioned Jack Flaherty that we have heard rumored and discussed in Trevor’s piece.

The Winter Meetings have swung into full swing and the St. Louis Cardinals are busily shopping. In shopping, the rumor mill has already linked the Cardinals to several potential deals.

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