Pirates/Cardinals TRADE

[Pirates GM (Max)]

Pirates TRADE:
-- Jordan Beck COL OF, Prospect
-- Blake Walston ARZ LHP, Prospect
-- Adam Duvall ATL OF, $7M (2024)

Cardinals TRADE:
-- Cristian Javier HOU SP, $9.2M (4-A)

I accept. I have a glut of OF prospects, and while I like Beck quite a bit, I feel this is a good chance to cash him in after a very strong start to the year propelled him to an earlier than expected promotion since I cannot keep a million OF long term anyway. The buy low on Javier makes sense for where I'm at, and while moving a consensus top 75 prospect for a SP who just underwent TJS and was trending downward beforehand doesn't sound great on paper, the value of SP in this league is so crazy high that I think this will work out well so long as Javier returns to anything between his 2022 and 2023 forms. By the time I'm (hopefully) winning a lot of games in 2026, Javier will be around to help. Good luck Nik, thanks for getting this done!

[Cardinals GM (Nik)]

Accept. Javier likely won’t pitch again until 2026. Beck and Walston are two guys with 7 years of control left that I’m swapping for a SP with TJ history. I think Walston needs to improve quite a bit to remain in the starting rotation, but worth the flyer. Duvall is a nice depth piece for this year.

[D'backs GM (Kyle)]

Approve

[Royals GM (Bill)]

Approve

[Guardians GM (Thomas)]

Approve.

[Brewers GM (Tim)]

Approve

[Yankees GM (Jacob)]

Approve

[Rockies GM (Alex)]

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