Holliday filed for free agency on November 5. He finished 16th in the NL MVP voting – including a fourth-place vote – despite playing nearly 100 games in the American League. Both trades involving Holliday were later panned as failures for the A's, as two of the players they dealt away became multiple All-Stars. One was González, who won the 2010 batting title, Silver Slugger and Gold Glove Awards with the Rockies. Street was the other All-Star. Jesse Spector of "Sporting News" augured that the second deal was a "landslide win" for the Cardinals, even if they had never resigned Holliday in his free agency.