By the time Tommy Edman reached the Los Angeles Dodgers and completed his rehab assignment with a new team, he had already played all over the field for the Cardinals, even helped inspire a new Gold Glove Award while doing so, and still the Dodgers found a new position for him.
Cleanup.
The switch-hitting, utility infielder and former Cardinal had 11 hits and 11 RBIs in six games of the National League Championship Series to help lift the star-studded Dodgers to the pennant. He joined a small but notable club of former Cardinals while doing so. He is the latest of the players the Cardinals traded away to win a championship series MVP.
But Randy Arozarena was not the first.
Stretch all the way back to 2002, when another infielder won the ALCS MVP just two years after being traded by the Cardinals.
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Adam Kennedy, traded as a prospect to the Angels in the package that brought Jim Edmonds to St. Louis, won the ALCS MVP for the title-bound Anaheim club. Six years later, Placido Polanco won the 2006 ALCS MVP award with Detroit, though he became a free agent and signed with the Tigers after the Cardinals dealt him to Philadelphia for Scott Rolen.
That list has been joined more loudly in the social-media era by Arozarena, traded 2020 and ALCS MVP in 2020; Adolis Garcia, purchased by the Rangers from the Cardinals in 2019 and ALCS MVP in 2023; and now Edman, traded in a three-team deal to Dodgers in July and NLCS MPV in October.
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