Hey everyone, just letting you know that some big baseball news broke after we recorded

the episode you're about to hear, Metzoner Steve Cohen deleted his Twitter account.

No, not that.

The Cardinals reportedly traded for Rocky's third baseman and perennial All-Star Gold Glover

and MVP vote-gator Nolan Arnato, who has been, by Fangrafts' War, the best third

baseman in baseball dating back to 2015.

You'll hear me and Meg briefly bring up Arnato trade rumors and speculate about NL Central

Transaction Activity finally gaining some steam, but we didn't learn about the trade

until late on Friday because big baseball news tends to break at inconvenient times.

It looks like the Rockies will send roughly $50 million to St. Louis, along with Arnato

in exchange for a package of non-elite prospects and the exciting centerpieces, salary-leaf,

and financial flexibility.

There are all kinds of complexities involving no trade causes and opt-outs and deferrals

and an additional year guaranteed and approvals from the League in the Union, so we'll discuss

all of that and much more next time, but it seems safe to say that if the deal gets done,

the Cardinals will catapult to the top of the projected standings in a tightly packed and

mostly mediocre division.

For now, I'll remind you not to make the Matt Holiday DJ Lamehu mistake of treating

Arnato's road stats as a Rocky as his real offensive skill level outside of course

field, and I'll leave you with this email we received from a listener named Brett.

I think I may be the only Rocky's fan that ever sends emails, allow me to represent the

fan base with the following message.

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