Cardinals News: St Louis trades Genesis Cabrera to Blue Jays

The St. Louis Cardinals are on the board with a trade, albeit a minor one.

Eric Cole

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The St. Louis Cardinals have been expected to be one of the key cogs at the trade deadline this year. With their disastrous first half of the season, the team went from a probable buyer at the trade deadline to a deadline seller who teams are very curious ($) as who they are actually going to make available.

Today wasn't one of the moves that will give us clues to how aggressive the Cardinals' front office plans on being, but it could be the first domino to fall. Earlier today, Katie Woo reported that the Cardinals traded reliever Genesis Cabrera to the Blue Jays for minor league catcher Sammy Hernandez.

What does the Genesis Cabrera trade mean for the Cardinals?

Cabrera moving on is hardly surprising as he was DFAed by the Cardinals earlier this week. St. Louis is clearly getting their roster in order ahead of the deadline and it is just a nice added bonus that the Cardinals were able to get anything out of him at all. Cabrera had posted a 5.06 ERA in 32 appearances with St. Louis this season.

In exchange, the Cardinals received Sammy Hernandez from the Blue Jays. Hernandez was a 14th round pick in 2022 MLB Draft out of Lakeland High School. He has posted a .213/.287/.367 line in the low minors this season.

Again, this trade doesn't exactly mean that the sell-off is about to begin as the move to get Cabrera off the roster sort of forced the timing of this particular trade. However, it does mean that that is one less reliever potentially on the trade market and could get teams starting to talk more and more with their preferred trade partners.

Trade season is coming up fast, folks, so strap in and enjoy the ride...unless the Cardinals trade Paul Goldschmidt. That would be bad.

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Eric Cole

I started my career writing about baseball covering the Atlanta Braves for SB Nation's Talking Chop back in 2015 which has since been renamed Battery Power. After years of writing for those fine folks, I made the decision to take over as Site Expert at House That Hank Built before becoming a full-time MLB Staff Writer for FanSided in 2023. Along the way, I have been a guest on multiple ESPN radio affiliates as well as 680 The Fan and 92.9 The Game to discuss Braves baseball and especially Braves prospects and was a long-time host on the Battery Power podcast. These days, I continue to write about the Braves as well as covering the Astros, Padres, and Angels with particular expertise with minor league coverage, the MLB Draft, and bashing Anthony Rendon when possible. When I am not writing about or talking about baseball (which is seldom), I am an avid baseball card collector (Maddux and Soroka being my primary personal collections) and I also collect shark teeth. All other sports are mostly dead to me as my Bills have broken my heart too many times.