As rumored earlier, the Cardinals are indeed getting starter Erick Fedde from the White Sox, albeit with the Dodgers sliding in to make the deal work.
We’ll await the particulars before judging the market impact and the value analysis, though we can already say that, for the Cardinals, the addition of Fedde greatly helps their rotation this and next year, which is of obvious interest to the Cubs.
More soon.
UPDATE: So this is a bigger deal:
UPDATE 2: More coming from the Dodgers to the White Sox (surely there must be a LOT still coming from the Cardinals?):
UPDATE 3: This thing is becoming a behemoth:
UPDATE 4: Is this a joke?
You’re telling me the Cardinals got Fedde and Pham for a guy who fell way off in 2023, hasn’t played at all in 2024, and is still owed money in 2025? This cannot possibly be real, and if it is, the Dodgers and White Sox should be embarrassed.
UPDATE 5: So the White Sox got EVEN LESS?! I’m laughing, kinda:
UPDATE 6: Here’s the first mention of the White Sox actually getting something from the Cardinals in the deal, which would make MUCH MORE sense:
UPDATE 7: Welp, reportedly that’s all there is to it:
Just embarrassing (mostly for the White Sox, slightly for the Dodgers). The Cardinals got their deadline pick-ups for nothing. Truly nothing.
UPDATE 8: The deal is official, with two minor adjustments:
The White Sox don’t actually get anything more in the final accounting (woof), but the Cardinals do give up righty pitching prospect Oliver Gonzalez. He’s a 17-year-old DSL recent IFA signing. So he might be interesting, he might be not. It’s not an inclusion you get particularly worked up about if you’re the Cardinals. They are also getting a PTBNL or cash in the deal from the Dodgers, plus cash from the White Sox. This freaking trade, man.