Many don’t expect the Los Angeles Dodgers to have an interest in future St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Nolan Arenado.<\/p>\n
However, if Max Muncy doesn’t continue to progress from his injury as well as many have suggested, the Dodgers won’t have any other choice but to go out and trade for a third baseman.<\/p>\n
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Whether they try to trade for somebody as expensive as Arenado remains to be seen, but he’s been linked to them multiple times in recent months.<\/p>\n
Just Baseball was the latest to do so, but for a different reason than Muncy\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n
They noted that the Cardinals could move on from Arenado, citing a change of scenery as possibly being in the best interest for both parties, also noting that Mookie Betts moving back to right field could put this team in a better position than they’re currently in.<\/p>\n
MORE:\u00a0Cardinals former fan favorite announces retirement from MLB after 13 seasons<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe 34-year-old isn\u2019t the same hitter, but he still brings elite defense and a strong presence. With the Cardinals hanging around the wild-card race, he\u2019s a longshot, but one that\u2019s been tied to the Dodgers before. Arenado has a .693 OPS this year, but a change of scenery could help.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cIn either scenario, a move would allow Betts to return to the outfield, which solves two problems at once. The Dodgers could elect to solve this problem in-house by benching Michael Conforto, moving Betts to right field, and having Miguel Rojas platoon with Hyeseong Kim at shortstop,\u201d they wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n As long as the Cardinals get the package they’re looking for in return, they shouldn’t worry too much about where they send him.<\/p>\n MORE MLB NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many don’t expect the Los Angeles Dodgers to have an interest in future St. Louis Cardinals Hall of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4294,2323,3963,4293,18559,363,4286,7646,99,1231],"class_list":["post-20459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-hyeseong-kim","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-max-muncy","tag-michael-conforto","tag-miguel-rojas","tag-mlb","tag-mookie-betts","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}