3 up, 3 down at Cardinals spring training and 1 lineup dilemma yet to come around

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

JUPITER, Fla. -- With three weeks of spring training remaining before opening day at Busch Stadium and three weeks to make decisions on the bullpen, three weeks to explore any last-minute trades, three weeks to stir the offense, and three weeks to make that first free-agent move of the offseason, the Best Podcast in Baseball considers camp with a pair of threes.

Three up.

Three down.

Post-Dispatch sports columnist and instant offense for StlToday.com Jeff Gordon joins baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss three ups of spring (players who have stood out) and three downs (trends of note), and all of that leads to the one major lineup dilemma looming over the team. Manager Oliver Marmol likes to say it will take a larger room to come to a conclusion on some of the defining decisions of March. This is a look at how those talks could go.

Gordon joins the podcast from St. Louis, while Goold is in Jupiter covering spring training for the Post-Dispatch's constant Cardinals coverage.

The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is in its 13th season. It is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The Best Podcast in Baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
0:05.6	Update your closet, garage, office, pantry, and more.
0:09.0	Imagine your home totally organized with closets by design.
0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800 by design.
0:17.3	Welcome to a brand new episode of the Best Podcast in Baseball.
0:20.2	Join this week from back in St. Louis, where I hear it's warming up,
0:24.0	and that's not just because of the NHL trade deadline.
0:26.6	It's, of course, Jeff Gordon, our instant offense and sports columnists at the Post Dispatch.
0:33.1	Jeff, we're going to talk about three up for spring training, three down,
0:37.0	and a lineup dilemma for the Cardinals in this episode of BPIB.
0:41.1	You're up for it?
0:42.3	I'm ready, man.
0:43.3	Let's do it.
0:44.1	All right.
0:44.6	Cue the music.
1:02.4	The best fans in baseball deserve the best podcast in baseball. It's BPIB. Here's your host, Derek Gould.
1:07.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis.
1:11.6	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould, joined by sports columnist,
1:18.2	Instant Offense, and author of Tipsheet. It's Jeff Gordon back in the, do you have a name for your studio? Is it the Gordo Studios, the Palatial Gordo Studios of St. Louis?
1:23.7	It would be my badly renovated lower level, which survived some plumbing issues.
1:30.4	Now it's all nice when I can come down here and do my podcast.
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