Best Podcast in Baseball

Dec 12 2024 129 ep. 50 mins 297

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold and other sports columnists and reporters discuss the St. Louis Cardinals, MLB and anything tangentially related to the national pastime and the city that adores it.

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'Death, taxes, Cardinals competing every year': How quickly can 'reset' restore that brand?

Dec 12 2024 43 mins

"There should be three expectations in life," MLB Network Radio host and noted baseball pundit Mike Ferrin says in a brand new episode of the Best Pocast in Baseball. "Death, taxes, and the Cardinals competing evry year. That's National League baseball." That may be the Cardinals' brand, but that is not entirely their plan this coming season. At Major League Baseball's Winter Meeti

What dominoes must fall for teams to start holiday shopping for trades with Cardinals?

Dec 06 2024 77 mins

While discussing how Major League Baseball could proactively move to help smaller-market clubs remain competitive, KMOX/1120 AM host and frequent Best Podcast in Baseball guest Kevin Wheeler strikes upon a model the Cardinals could aspire to emulate during their self-imposed reset. "The Atlanta Braves," Wheeler suggests. A team that develops, acquires, and keeps young impact player

What does Bloom with BoSox reveal about Chaim time in St. Louis?

Nov 22 2024 71 mins

During the past two decades in Major League Baseball, only the Houston Astros have won pennants and appeared in more World Series than the Cardinals and Boston. Two of baseball's most accomplished and celebrated franchises have won four pennants each and faced each other twice in the World Series, both of them won by the BoSox. The ties that bind go beyond shared Octobers these day

As Cardinals play catchup, can their past be a guide to future success?

Nov 15 2024 80 mins

After a brief discussion about a shared fondness for a recent, deeply moving and haunting collection of linked short stories, Sequioa Nagamatsu's 'How High We Got in the Dark,' two baseball writers focus on another work of speculative fiction. What to make of the 2025 St. Louis Cardinals. CBS Sports baseball writer Dayn Perry joins the Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss his lifelo

Are Shohei Ohtani's Dodgers closer to 11th World Series title than Cardinals are to a 12th?

Nov 01 2024 63 mins

While awaiting the parade's arrival at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles Times sports columnist Dylan Hernandez veers into nostalgia as he wonders whether the Dodgers' run of success and appetite for more might spur the Cardinals to defend their place in the National League and re-spark one of his favorite rivalries. Hosting a parade in Los Angeles for the first time since 1988

Clearing the airwaves on the Cardinals' fuzzy broadcast bind: How it got bad and will get better

Oct 29 2024 58 mins

As much as the standings and missteps of their player development system will shape the Cardinals' offseason, arguably the most significant factor in any of their decisions will be when the broadcast sports sinkhole reaches them, and how deep it goes. The consternation will be televised. This much is certain: The Cardinals games will be available to cable subscribers in 2025 and al

But at what cost? Auditing Cardinals' planned payroll trim amidst a changing brand (Part 2)

Oct 25 2024 53 mins

Continuing the conversation that began in the Best Podcast in Baseball episode 21, season 12, KMOX/1120 AM's Kevin Wheeler considers the question on how the Cardinals can accumulate younger talent, draft picks, or both. The answer begins at first base. The questions continue from there in this brand new Best Podcast in Baseball that ultimately reaches a discussion about the Wo

But at what cost? Auditing Cardinals' planned payroll trim amidst a changing brand (Part 1)

Oct 24 2024 58 mins

The official changes to some Cardinals' leadership roles, from the front office to the dugout, as they approach their "reset" winter continued on the eve of the World Series with the first new addition to the front office, a new coach, and a new role for an all-time great. Kevin Wheeler, co-host of the drive-time show and baseball coverage at KMOX/1120 AM, joins the Best Podcast in

Cardinals vet Matt Carpenter has seen dramatic shifts for MLB hitters, and does he have stories to tell

Sep 28 2024 45 mins

Toward the end of his first professional season, not too long after he told a roommate Oliver Marmol about his personal and accelerated timetable to reach the majors, Matt Carpenter got a phone call that could have forever changed his career in baseball. He was approached about being a coach, and he was tempted to take it. The next summer his playing career took off. There are base

If a fan's base anger slips into apathy, what message can Cardinals deliver to reinspire the faithful?

Sep 20 2024 42 mins

A year after "pitching, pitching, pitching" dictated the Cardinals' approach to the offseason, the club faces a far broader challenge this winter. PR, PR, PR. Or, as Best Podcast in Baseball guest Brooke Grimsley, noted: "Change, change, change." The 2024 Cardinals' season comes to a close with the club trying ot break the hold of .500 and avoid a second losing season, what would b