On December 14th, 2007 the Cardinals made a truly unfortunate trade. They traded Sandy Alcantara, Zac Gallen, Daniel Castano, and Magneuris Sierra for Marcell Ozuna. They did this in a year where their other outfield options were Harrison Bader, Jose Martinez, Tommy Pham, and Dexter Fowler. That was Fowler’s terrible year, but Bader had a 4.1 fWAR year and Martinez had a 2.2 fWAR year. They ended up having to trade Pham, because they couldn’t trade Ozuna and they couldn’t trade Fowler, so someone had to go to make room for Bader. So basically, they didn’t need Ozuna and ended up paying a high price to get him.
The offseason that dramatically altered the Brewers and Cardinals’ fortunes
