MLB rumors: Cardinals interested in Yankees and Mariners targets, Dodgers-White Sox deal, All-Star for Rays?

MLB rumors: St. Louis Cardinals looking to trade with Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees?

With St. Louis Cardinals President of Baseball Operations, John Mozeliak, stating that “we’re going to trade people,” the task leading up to the MLB trade deadline becomes which players will the Cardinals send away as well as which ones will they target for a rebuild ahead of the 2024 campaign?

According to Derrick Goold of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, there are two players that are rumored to be acquisition targets for the Cardinals. The first in Seattle Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert, a 26-year-old right-hander who has posted a 3.66 ERA/3.47 FIP/0.978 WHIP in 18 starts (108.1 innings) this season. Gilbert isn’t scheduled to become a free agent until the 2028 campaign, so he would fill a need to controllable starting pitching for the Cardinals.

Another name mentioned by Goold is Clayton Beeter, a right-hander at the Triple-A level for the New York Yankees who has 83 strikeouts in 14 starts (71.2 innings) this season. Selected to the recent Futures Game, the 24-year-old right-hander came to the Yankees in the trade that sent Joey Gallo to the Los Angeles Dodgers and has yet to make his MLB debut.

While it’s unclear exactly what it would cost the Cardinals to land either of these starting pitching targets, it is clear that St. Louis knows it needs to address its rotation for the long term at the trade deadline.