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Updates are that they exchanged names and the discussion was 'not productive'.
Rox are wanting the Cardinals to pay like Arenado doesn't have an opt out. Cardinals are unwilling to take on the entire contract and Rox are unwilling to take on contracts to make the deal work.
In other words, the Rockies appear to be living in an alternate reality where players nearing their age 30 seasons and lugging around $35 million/season contracts (who will leave if they overperform and stay if they underperform) have massive trade value.
Good on the Cardinals for not being stupid here. Perhaps they learned their lesson from the Goldschmidt deal.
Still chaps my ass that Harper was a FA in an offseason where teams were historically tight-fisted (Donaldson just got the same AAV as Harper for his age 34-37 seasons) and the Cardinals felt the need to give up assets to get an aging player instead of just signing a young probable HoFer off the market.
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