{"id":114490,"date":"2025-10-30T15:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=114490"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:50:43","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8-cardinals-apocalyptic-blockbuster-pirates-shockingly-ship-phenom-paul-skenes-to-st-louis-for-a-prospect-mountain-is-this-the-gateway-to-glory-heist-that-finally-ends-decad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=114490","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8 CARDINALS&#8217; APOCALYPTIC BLOCKBUSTER: Pirates SHOCKINGLY Ship Phenom Paul Skenes to St. Louis for a Prospect MOUNTAIN\u2014Is This the &#8220;Gateway to Glory&#8221; Heist That Finally Ends Decades of Heartbreak, or the Trade That IGNITES a Pittsburgh Fan UPRISING?! \ud83d\ude31\u26be"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-body\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.sportingnews.com\/styles\/crop_style_16_9_desktop_webp\/s3\/2025-10\/USATSI_27161061.jpg.webp?itok=Ej1fwG2T\" alt=\"Potential Paul Skenes trade sees Pirates deal away superstar for mountain  of top prospects | Sporting News\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates just went through their 10th losing season in a row, and it seems Paul Skenes is quite unhappy with the team&#8217;s direction. So, it might be time to think about trading their superstar while his asking price is still sky high.<\/p>\n<p>Bleacher Report\u2019s Kerry Miller believes that the Pirates should look to move Skenes as well, and proposed a trade that would be reminiscent of the Boston Red Sox\u2019 trade for Garrett Crochet last year, sending Skenes to the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>The trade would look like this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cardinals get: RHP Paul Skenes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pirates get: IF JJ Wetherholt, LHP Matthew Liberatore, RHP Michael McGreevy, LHP Liam Doyle and C Leonardo Bernal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast offseason, Boston gave up a haul of four prospects\u2014including two who were very comfortably regarded as top-100 prospects\u2014for two years of Garrett Crochet (before almost immediately signing him to a long-term extension)&#8230;So, we&#8217;ve got the Cardinals giving up first-round picks from each of the 2025 (Doyle), 2024 (Wetherholt), 2021 (McGreevy) and 2018 (Liberatore) drafts, as well as a 21-year-old switch-hitting catcher (Bernal) who could at least do something for a moribund Pirates offense,\u201d Miller wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This would be one of the most ludicrous trades of the offseason; one, because Skenes is going to need so much to be traded for, and two, the Cards are probably going through a rebuild soon and need their prospects.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the Cards decide to reload over rebuild, having a 1-2 punch of Skenes and Sonny Gray would be electric. 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