Well, not really. The Cards acquired Jorge Sosa from the Braves this afternoon for Memphis reliever Rich Scalamandre. As VEB reports, Sosa is a) not good and b) doesn't exactly have a roster spot to fill. He's also not particularly young, having turned 29 in April. Scalamandre, however, didn't seem to be going anywhere terribly fast either - despite pretty good strikeout rates all the way up, he took until his age-25 season to get promoted out of A-ball, and hasn't done anything overly spectacular above that level in the past year and change. As far as raw ability is concerned, however, I know very little about him. So we'd like to think that this is a swap of two pretty inconsequential players. At least, we hope it is for the Cardinals' sake.

I'd say the biggest positive to this deal is that it reminds us that we're still well short of the franchise record for the most former Devil Rays on the roster at one time.