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The St. Louis picked up their shortstop for the 2009 season on Thursday as they completed a trade with the San Diego Padres. The Cardinals traded for Khalil Greene and will be sending pitching prospect Mark Worrell to the Padres as well as a player to be named later. The PTBNL will probably be another pitching prospect as well.

Greene will make $6.5 million in 2009, with the Cardinals on the hook to pay all of it. St. Louis would thus be left with approximately $10-15 million more in payroll room to find a second baseman and perhaps another starting pitcher and/or another left-handed reliever. Greene will be eligible for free agency after the 2009 season

Greene struggled in 2008 as he only hit .213 with a .260 on-base percentage and a .339 slugging percentage. It was his worst season in the big leagues but hopefully he can turn things around and have a good 09 season for the Cardinals and stay injury free as well.

Also on Wednesday, the team signed reliever Trever Miller to a one-year contract.

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The St. Louis Cardinals have had their mind made up for a while and that was to not offer arbitration to any of their free agents and let them walk away and sign with new teams this off season. Russ Springer, Braden Looper and Jason Isringhausen will now be looking for a new home for the 2009 season while the team will not receive any draft picks if they do indeed sign with new teams.

St. Louis has five other free agents who are not rated Type A or Type B. Mark Mulder, Juan Encarnacion, Felipe Lopez, Cesar Izturis and Ron Villone were also not offered arbitration.

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