Many dominoes are falling right about now, and a pearl-encrusted one is apparently the next to go:
Pederson will ply his left-hand-hitting trade out by the Bay for the foreseeable future, taking a modest pay cut from the $7 million guaranteed he earned last season. That 2021 season was a mixed bag for Pederson: he took a one-year deal after an abysmal, very short 2020 regular season in an attempt to establish some value and prove he could hit left-handed pitching, but didn’t play particularly well. On the plus side, he was traded to the Braves ahead of the Trade Deadline and earned himself a World Series ring, shining in the NLDS and taking Max Scherzer deep in the NLCS to boot.