The month of trades has arrived.
In 30 days, the MLB trade deadline will be one of the most talked about stories in the world of sports. Which teams will buy, sell or hold out?
For some teams, the decision on whether to buy or sell is an easy one. For others, not so much.
One of those teams that will be faced with the difficult decision as to what to do at the end of the month is the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals are coming off a big week where they won five of their seven games between the Cubs and Guardians.
The successful week has now placed them at 47-39, just a game ahead of the Padres for the final spot in the NL wild card race. The good news for the St. Louis is that they are just 1.5 games behind the Mets for the No. 4 spot in the NL.
In a CBS Sports article from Dayn Perry, Perry named all the teams that still need to decide whether they will buy or sell at the trade deadline. The list includes the Cardinals.
“The Cardinals came into 2025 angling for a “transition year” in which they focus on giving regular playing time to younger players. That’s largely been the case despite not much roster churn over the winter. At the same time, though, the Cardinals have surprised onlookers and contended through the first three months of the season. It’s hard to imagine any serious buying activity, but a solid July could prevent a wider sell-off as St. Louis tries to make it back to the postseason for the first time since 2022,” Perry wrote.
It seems that with the year St. Louis is having, the Cardinals may lean toward holding off, or simply not buying at the deadline. It is probably not likely they will go into a full “sell” mode, but a bad July for St. Louis could go in that direction.
