{"id":246906,"date":"2025-10-28T18:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246906\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:38:12","slug":"cardinals-pirates-linked-in-wild-offseason-trade-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246906\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals, Pirates Linked in Wild Offseason Trade Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the World Series set to wrap up within the next five days, offseason trade ideas are beginning to be discussed.<\/p>\n

One of those comes from Bleacher Report’s Kerry Miller<\/a> and it is a trade proposal that would shake up the National League Central for years to come.<\/p>\n

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Miller, in a story outlining “wild” trade ideas for the offeason, proposed a trade sending Pirates right-hander Paul Skenes to the Cardinals in exchange for shortstop JJ Wetherholt, catcher Leonardo Bernal and pitchers Matthew Liberatore, Liam Doyle and Michael McGreevy. <\/p>\n

Miller cited last season’s Garrett Crochet trade as a starting point for trade talks.<\/p>\n

“Last offseason, Boston gave up a haul of four prospects — including two who were very comfortably regarded as top 100 prospects — for two years of Garrett Crochet (before almost immediately signing him to a long-term extension). But we’re talking four years of team control on what has been a more dominant force on the mound,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the likelihood of a Skenes trade is minimal, and even more so with a division rival. Nothing can be ruled out of possibility, though, as we’ve seen with shocking trades across all sports in recent years. <\/p>\n

The future of both franchises would be reshaped with a trade of this magnitude, and it feels like Pittsburgh would come out on the better side of it, as the proposed deal has it receiving multiple top-100 prospects in return for what could be just two years of team control that the Cardinals would get from Skenes.<\/p>\n

We’ll have to wait and see what the offseason holds, and while Skenes will likely not be traded, the chatter surrounding the two-time All-Star on the move will be happening throughout the winter.<\/p>\n

More MLB<\/a>: Dave Roberts Sends Message to Dodgers After Wild World Series Game 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the World Series set to wrap up within the next five days, offseason trade ideas are beginning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,5160,85,2366],"class_list":["post-246906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}