The MLB Winter Meetings may be behind us, but MLB free agency and trade rumors are still going on at full speed. After all, we're still only midway through Dece

The St. Louis Cardinals left the Winter Meetings without making any moves, but that doesn’t mean that they weren’t active. They are expected to trade several ve

Chaim Bloom, who has recently taken over as the Cardinals' front office leader, took Gerritt Whitlock in the 2020 Rule-5 Draft when he was running the Boston Red Sox. Whitlock became a valuable contributor to the 2021 Red Sox, who advanced to the ALCS, and he's now one of the better relievers in the American League.

Tasked with reconstructing both the minor league system and the major league roster of the St. Louis Cardinals, the version of Bloom free to focus solely on cold roster calculus—shifting players around like digits on a spreadsheet—would be able to move with ruthless precision and absolute efficiency.

The New York Yankees have already made some pitching moves this offseason, and while they are still (potentially) chasing another starter to bolster their injur