Cardinals' potential acquisitions

The St. Louis Cardinals are definately going to be buyers at the much anticipated trade deadline. They have shown interest in players such as Matt Holliday, Jason Bay, George Sherrill, Brian Fuentes, and J.J. Putz. In this post, I am going to try and put together some possible trades for some of these players:

Brian Fuentes:

The Colorado Rockies are looking to deal Brian Fuentes, but their asking price is pretty steep. They want a young starting pitcher in return and a little bullpen relief. Based on their needs, my trade would look like this:

Cardinals get:

Brian Fuentes

Rockies get:

Clayton Mortenson
Mike Parisi
Mark Worrell
Cash Considerations

Matt Holliday:

There is no easy deal that could be made for this all-star player. Any deal with the Cardinals would have to include top prospect Colby Rasmus. If the Cardinals would be interested in trading away Rasmus the trade might look something like this:

Cardinals get:

Matt Holliday

Rockies get:

Colby Rasmus
Bryan Anderson
Chris Duncan
Kyle Mura

George Sherrill:

The Baltimore Orioles are looking to rebuild at the shortstop position. The Cardinals would probably have to throw in a couple of arms as well. I believe the trade would look something like this:

Cardinals get:

George Sherrill

Orioles get:

Donovan Solano
Peter Kozma
Blake Hawksworth
Jason Motte
(possibly Chris Perez minus a couple of the previous named prospects)

Obviously all of these are merely predictions and aren't necessarily going to go through. The George Sherrill trade was the hardest to predict.

We will see what the Cardinals do tomorrow at the deadline.