Just last week, we wondered how many Cardinals new president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom would be looking to trade this offseason, how deep he was willing to go to improve this roster long term. And just before Thanksgiving, we found out: He’s ready to start trading right now.

Signings & Trades

With the Cardinals’ trade of Sonny Gray to the Red Sox for Boston’s No. 5 prospect Brandon Clarke and right-handed pitcher Richard Fitts (plus a player to be named or cash), the exodus of players from St. Louis may just be beginning. Here are five takeaways from Bloom’s first big move.

1. The Red Sox have a rotation workhorse, and that fits their roster

Gray has finished in the top seven in Cy Young Award voting three times in his career (with the A’s in 2015, the Reds in '19 and the Tw

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