Bird, batting .231 with 8HRs would join Matt Adams (.284/16), Ryan Zimmerman, Mark Reynolds (.286/10) and Daniel Murphy in a wonderful five man first base rotation in Washington.
Carton also had Ryan Lochte not at the gas station and...the Busch family as making an offer to Woody Johnson to purchase the players that were the then current New York Jets and move them to St. Louis Missouri.
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