Despite recent reports suggesting there might be a fit with St. Louis, Baseball CEO poured cold water on the idea of trading shortstop Nick Ahmed.
We start, as usual, with the standard warning about this front-office and their tendency to be an awful lot more circumspect with regard to public statements than the Kevin Towers regime. We've seen cases before where they've said one thing, and then, almost immediately done the opposite: the trades of Mark Trumbo and Miguel Montero come to mind there. While making tactical sense, it sucks from anyone who has to write about the team, because everything they say has to be taken with a pinch of salt.