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Ex-Cardinals All-Star Signs Deal With National League Foe Amid Strange Season

A former member of the 2023 roster is onto his third team of the year

Scott Neville

Ex-Cardinals All-Star Signs Deal With National League Foe Amid Strange Season
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The St. Louis Cardinals shipped off four players at the Major League Baseball Trade Deadline to kick off the month. One of them has already been let go by his new team and reportedly has signed with a third.

"The San Francisco Giants have just signed shortstop Paul DeJong to a major-league contract. He joins the team Wednesday," USA Today's Bob Nightengale tweeted Tuesday.

DeJong hit .233 with a .710 OPS (93 OPS+) in 81 games for the Cardinals this season leading up to the deadline. After being traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, he hit .068 with a .136 OPS (-62 OPS+) in 13 games.

He was then designated for assignment and is now looking to start fresh on the West Coast.

The Cardinals acquired right-hander Matt Svanson for DeJong. The 24-year-old is not a top prospect but had a ridiculous 1.11 ERA with a 39-to-11 strikeout-to-walk ratio, .167 batting average against and 0.93 WHIP between Low-A and High-A this season. St. Louis pushed him to Double-A Springfield -- where he has struggled in five appearances.

St. Louis did a great job of getting the highest possible prospect they could for DeJong, who appeared to be amid a resurgent season before falling off a cliff in Toronto. 

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Scott Neville
SCOTT NEVILLE

Scott Neville covers the St. Louis Cardinals for FanNation's "Inside The Cardinals" on Sports Illustrated. Before starting "Inside The Cardinals", Neville attended Merrimack College, where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media with a minor in Marketing. Neville spent all four years with Merrimack's radio station WMCK, where he grew as a radio/podcast host and producer. His propensity for being in front of a microphone eventually expanded to film, where he produced multiple short films alongside his then-roommate and current co-worker Stephen Mottram. On a journey that began as a way to receive easy credits via film classes, he received a call from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" star Charlie Day. Day advised him to make a feature-length film, which he completed his senior year. While writing the film, Neville completed an internship for United Way as part of their NFL Partnership Program. Neville ran the blog for a team of interns and hosted an internet show called "United Way's NFL Partnership Series" where he interviewed NFL alumni. After college Neville wrote for SB Nation's "Over The Monster," a Red Sox sister site of the flagship brand. His work would eventually lead him to a job as a content producer with NESN, where he would cover all sports. After developing as a writer with the top regional network in the world, he was given the opportunity to join FanNation and the Sports Illustrated Media Group as the publisher of "Inside The Red Sox."  After a few months as the top Major League Baseball site in the program, Neville sought expansion and pitched "Inside The Cardinals," one of the newest additions to FanNation and the Sports Illustrated Media Group. The successful launch and quick rise of "Inside The Cardinals" led to Neville joining the Baseball Essential ownership group, a national baseball site under SIMG. Follow him on Twitter: @ScottNeville46 Email: nevilles@merrimack.edu