31st on 31st: What tricks or treats await Cardinals as opening of free agent market looms?
Best Podcast in Baseball
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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When the World Series ends, the roster work begins, and the Cardinals have new staff and new leadership in place -- so will it mean new direction?
On Oct. 31, the Best Podcast in Baseball drops, fittingly, the 31st episode of this season. And it's not meant to scare fans. Although, the two teams playing in the World Series might cause a shiver through Cardinals Nation about how far away the local club feels from the two tycoon clubs playing this Halloween for the championship.
Nathan Mills, an editor at the Post-Dispatch and co-host of the hockey podcast Net Front Presence, joins baseball writer Derrick Goold in a brand new BPIB to discuss how far away the Cardinals are from playing this late into October. Also discussed: What lessons can be taken from a World Series that features two of the top-five payrolls in the game, what pitchers fit the Cardinals needs, and what priorities the Cardinals should set for this winter when splurging and star-chasing seems unlikely.
The butterfly effect of new positions and new hires for the front office is detailed, as it whether such moves reinvigorate a fanbase.
Many words that begin with the prefix re- are used in the making of this podcast.
In its 13th season as one of the first and most widely heard podcasts on baseball and the Cardinals, the Best Podcast in Baseball has reached a new season-high with 30 episodes. Each episode is sponsored weekly by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and lead baseball writer Derrick Goold.
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| 0:00.0 | Free agency is on the horizon. |
| 0:02.0 | The Cardinals have some shopping to do. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm joined by St. Louis Post Dispatch production editor, one of the guys who helps us put out the sports section every day, Nathan Mills. |
| 0:10.2 | We're going to talk about what direction the Cardinals could go. |
| 0:14.2 | And if there's any lessons from this world series between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays about what it takes to be successful |
| 0:21.5 | in October, and how far away the Cardinals feel from it? |
| 0:25.4 | I mean, are they August away from it? |
| 0:28.4 | Are they July? |
| 0:29.7 | Or are they January? |
| 0:32.0 | Or in reality, are they November of the previous year away from October? |
| 0:37.1 | All of that, the brand new best podcast in baseball. |
| 0:40.2 | To the music. |
| 0:48.2 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball. |
| 0:50.2 | Brought to you by Closet by Design of St. Louis. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould. Join this week by Nathan Mills, one of the editors at the Post |
| 0:57.9 | Dispatch and new to the podcast. You'll hear him more regularly here. You'll see him in the video. |
| 1:04.6 | And you probably already know him from the Blues podcast. Nathan, thank you very much for taking |
| 1:09.8 | this time. thanks for having me |
| 1:11.7 | there let me uh join your podcast here i'm so excited are you copy editing as we talk are you multitasking |
| 1:19.5 | i'm i'm not today but i probably will be other days it just depends on the day you catch me yeah |
| 1:24.9 | no because that's just that's part of the job now? It's like what plate to spin at what time. |
| 1:30.1 | See, I'm really good about spinning both plates, but then combining them. So whatever you and I are saying, I'm going to start editing into stories. Sounds good. So I really hope that at some point in time during our conversation, you stop me and you say that that was bad verb noun agreement. |
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