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Eli Marrero: Remember Your Redbirds

Between 1999 and 2021, only three players could say that they were the starting catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals: Yadier Molina, Mike Matheny, and Eli Marrero. Though Matheny replaced Marrero as the starter in 2000, Marrero deserves to be remembered as more than just one of the players included in the trade that acquired […]

Cardinals trade J.D. Drew, get Adam Wainwright in five-player deal: December 13, 2003

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When the Cardinals drafted J.D. Drew in 1998, they thought they were getting a franchise cornerstone. More than five years later, they obtained a new foundational piece when they traded Drew to the Braves in a five-player deal that sent Drew and catcher/outfielder Eli Marrero to Atlanta for starting pitcher Jason Marquis, left-handed reliever Ray

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