According to a recent report from MLB.com’s John Denton, that was something that came up during the deadline. Denton reported that the star third baseman and president of baseball operations, John Mozeliak, had a talk before the deadline, and Arenado wasn’t willing to change his stance on where he wanted to be traded.

A trade of Phil Maton is expected to be the Cardinals' final move of the deadline, meaning St. Louis will hold onto Brendan Donovan, Lars Nootbaar, and others.