Author Evan Drellich on Houston's sign stealing & Cardinals connections

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In his new book 'Winning Fixes Everything,' author Evan Drellich details the corporate culture that led to the Houston Astros sign-stealing quagmire and probes how many of the leading executives got their start in baseball with the Cardinals. Drellich joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss new insight into the hacking scandal that will forever bind the Astros and Cardinals, the baseball operations approach that former Cardinals exec Jeff Luhnow created in Houston, and how organizational arrogance may have led to negligence. Drellich, a senior writer at The Athletic who along with Ken Rosenthal broke the story on Houston's trashcan caper during the 2017 season, explores the reporting on that story and the fallout from it, including how baseball clubs are reluctant to talk about their "trade secrets" and why that's bad for the game, bad for storytelling, and yet ignored because without the sign-stealing the Astros' winning would have lacquered over everything. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, 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.
0:16.9	I remember feeling who's going to believe me.
0:19.2	And this is something that the book, I hope, makes people think about a little bit.
0:25.5	And I've been thinking about even now lately is, you know, if the sign stealing doesn't happen, that disc, you know, how do you reconcile that?
0:33.3	How do you reconcile a baseball team being really good on the field and a lot of other stuff that you don't see really going wrong?
0:41.9	You know, and we're so result-oriented in sports, in general, in life.
0:46.0	They don't steal the signs, and I write the book about all this cultural stuff.
0:49.3	Everybody's going, so what?
0:50.4	They're winners.
1:01.8	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Clauses by Design of St. Louis. I'm San Luis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould,
1:06.1	recording this from Jupiter, Florida, as spring training revs to a beginning. And this week, I am pleased
1:12.9	to be joined by author, reporter extraordinaire, Evan Drellick. Senior writer at the Athletic Evan.
1:20.5	Thank you so much for taking this time and what I'm sure is a busy week for you.
1:25.8	Oh, Derek, thanks for having me. I'm glad to spend some time with you.
1:30.3	Evans' new book, which probably already know about, is called Winning Fixes Everything,
1:35.3	and it's how baseball's brightest minds created sports biggest mess. It's about the story that you
1:41.2	broke at The Athletic, there with Ken Ken Rosenthal about the Houston Astros sign
1:45.9	stealing caper and the links they went to blur the rules as to what was permissible to get an edge.
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