And the A’s aren’t going to pay most of Holliday’s contract to dump him. Not when they’ve got teams like the Cardinals interested in him, teams that won’t demand the A’s pick up most of what he’s owed from his $13.5 million salary.
By the way, talked to someone here today who told me the Cardinals are interested in Escobar. He also told me they wouldn’t trade Ryan Ludwick now.
Same guy told me the Braves tried to trade Rafael Soriano to the Cardinals last winter for - are you ready — OF Joe Mather. And Cardinals wouldn’t do it.
Don’t know if that’s entirely accurate, but it’s certainly possible it was proposed by the Braves, given the injury-plagued season Soriano had in 2008 and his $6.1 mill salary this season.
Needless to say, the Cardinals wish they had done that deal, since Soriano would be their closer right now.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
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