After stoking hot stove at Winter Meetings, what do Cardinals have cooking?
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Back from Orlando, Florida, and the annual Winter Meetings and into the chill of St. Louis, Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold shares with editor Nathan Mills what he learned about the Cardinals stoking the hot stove for a busy few weeks heading toward the holidays. The Cardinals gave a glimpse into their enhanced scouting staff and expanded view of the marketplace as well as revealed how they may look to add the same roles they've been looking to trade and what traits they're seeking in the pitchers they continue to collect. The Brendan Donovan market is so strong that other teams are wondering what they can get for their infielders. The Willson Contreras market is starting to take shape, but will it matter if he won't accept a trade? And the Nolan Arenado market is going to be slower to develop.
All of that, plus Mills sternly rebukes Goold's suggestion that the Dodgers go ahead and get it over and just trade for Mr. and Mrs. Met already and complete the Edwin Diaz trumpet-blaring entry into the ninth inning.
There is also an unexpected power ranking of mascots.
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 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.9 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak |
| 0:13.6 | you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the |
| 0:20.2 | afternoon. Not in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather. |
| 0:25.6 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. |
| 0:33.4 | The Cardinals are back from the winter meetings where they did a lot of talking. |
| 0:35.9 | They acquired one pitcher through the Rule 5 draft, and they set the stage for what could be a very busy few weeks leading into the holidays as they continue to receive lots of calls on their players and start to narrow down the asks that they're going to make to get back in trades. |
| 0:54.1 | I am joined by post-dispatch |
| 0:55.9 | editor Nathan Mills and a brand new best podcast in baseball to talk about all the things we |
| 1:00.5 | learn from the winter meetings and all the things that Cardinals have yet to do, which is |
| 1:05.1 | just about everything. Cue the music. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah. Cue the music. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould, and the podcast is brought to you |
| 1:22.7 | by closet by design of St. Louis. |
| 1:24.9 | Join this week by Post-patch Editor Nathan Mills. |
| 1:28.5 | And we're going to talk about the things we learned about the Cardinals at winter |
| 1:35.2 | meetings. |
| 1:36.5 | And I'm going to begin by asking you a question that I asked Benjamin Hockman. |
| 1:40.5 | And he was there covering the winter meetings for the post dispatch for the first time in 10 years. |
| 1:48.0 | He had gone. |
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