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If Roy Oswalt wants to be traded – really wants to be traded – he should start acting like it.
That means dropping any demand for a potential suitor to exercise his $16 million club option for 2012; his new team could compensate him for waiving his no-trade clause in a less extravagant way.
It also means staying open-minded on which teams he would approve for a trade; the Cardinals, his reported first choice, are not the only club with a chance to win the World Series.
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