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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Duncan,
The Cardinals are getting some great returns on Matt Carpenter at 2b and his bat has always profiled extremely well for the next level, especially if he can stick at 2b. So with Carpenter looking more and more like a long-term possibility at 2b, we have a top 50 prospect 2b of our own named Kolten Wong that appears to be buried or at least expendable in our pursuit of a SS.
If you're DM and the Cards come calling with Wong, who's arguably ML ready right now at 2b, would you give up Calixte or Mondesi for him? You fellas still don't appear to have a great long-term 2b option on your roster and our needs appear to match up nicely here.
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I could see Calixte being moved as the season goes on to bolster the roster, but I doubt they'd move him for a guy like Wong when Christian Colon is there and extremely similar. They put up nearly identical numbers in AA, playing in the same league (and Wong had Oscar Taveras hitting behind him all season, vs. Colon hitting in front of Wil Myers for a half season.
Colon also adds the benefit of being able to play SS as your backup guy there, while Wong really can't slide over there.
I don't think there's very much at all that would get them to budge on Raul-formerly-officially-listed-as-Adalberto Mondesi at this point. And there shouldn't be.