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Cardinals Must Trade O'Brien | St. Louis Cardinals News
The Cardinals are in a precarious wild card race and should be sellers, not buyers—at the trade deadline, they’ve got one elite asset worth moving: closer Riley O’Brien. An All-Star with three more years of control and tied for second in NL saves, he’s the perfect long-term piece to trade for a haul like what they got for Ryan Helsley. While other arms like Dustin May and Ryne Stanek have fizzled, and JoJo Romero’s sidelined by appendicitis, O’Brien is the only player with serious trade value. Holding onto him doesn’t make sense when the team’s rebuilding and the Sunday collapse against…
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