Cards willing to deal Rolen

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Scott Rolen Is Available
Published 11/14/2007 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... Cardinals GM John Mozeliak confirmed this morning that third baseman Scott Rolen is indeed available in trade.  The topic definitely came up at the GM meetings.  It seems that Rolen and Tony La Russa just can't get along. ...

Scott Rolen Is Officially Available (Not That Anyone Would Want Him)
Published 11/14/2007 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
... don't get along, but did you realize that the two barely spoke after the All-Star break last year? And then, after the season ended, La Russa reached out to Rolen, though he apparently did more damage than good. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: ...

Rolling Out Rolen
Published 11/14/2007 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
The St. Louis Cardinals are willing to make a deal for Scott Rolen : General manager John Mozeliak confirmed Tuesday meeting with Rolen's agents and discussing the Gold Glove third baseman's availability for trade during last week's GM meetings in Orlando, Fla. Numerous industry sources had spoken of the Cardinals' apparent willingness to deal Rolen in the week since the meetings concluded, but the club had downplayed the combustible issue while readying itself for Tuesday's opening of the free-agent market. With no thaw predicted in the famously frosty relationship between ...

Irreconcilable differences: The Scott Rolen Story
Published 11/14/2007 by ryan vb at Cardinals Diaspora
... By now, I’m sure you’ve read that the Cards have indeed confirmed their willingness to trade Scott Rolen. The news itself isn’t shocking; Mozeliak made the rumor we’ve been talking about for several weeks now official. ...

Thursday Hot Stove Buzz Rundown
Published 11/15/2007 by Anthony De Rosa at Hot Foot
... The St Louis Post Dispatch reports that Scott Rolen seems all but gone from St. Louis. The third baseman was reportedly unhappy with the letter he received from Tony La Russa that was an attempt to reconcile with Rolen. ...

Rumor Check
Published 11/15/2007 by cardinal70 at C70 At The Bat
... .  Bernie put that to bed pretty quickly, which was good, because it didn’t really make much sense from the Cardinal point of view.  You’ve got a guy under contract that would probably be cheaper than Lowell would be that you are trying to dump .  Why would you move him just to sign a guy that will probably decline significantly over the life of the contract?  I thought part of the reason for trading Rolen was to reduce payroll.  All and all, not a good idea if it was even broached seriously. There’s another one floating around that the ...