Best Podcast in Baseball 9.12: Get a Grip, MLB

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Major League Baseball's crack down on the sticky stuff being used to enhance pitches has begun, and who better to talk about the pursuit and policing of the game's best pitches than the reporter who wrote the book on pitches: Tyler Kepner, New York Times national baseball writer and author of "K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches." Kepner joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss how far the game has veered toward a pitching-dominated game and whether baseball's nature is always to favor the pitcher. They explore are how the targets of criticism -- coaches, managers, front office, media -- compare when the Yankees are struggled to when the Cardinals are struggling. And, also asked is whether Kepner, one of the most highly respected and read baseball writers in country, has concerns for the game as it wrestles with a lack of action while on the precipice of a labor tussle. The Best Podcast 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.
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0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800-by-design.
0:16.9	Yeah, I think what I'm hoping is that we see a return to greatness and, in other words, knowing what greatness really is.
0:27.5	Like, when you're watching Jacob de Grom, you know that's greatness.
0:30.9	But there's a lot of times, you know, you're watching a guy, and he just seemed to sort of come out of nowhere, or for, you know, for one inning here, he looks amazing.
0:37.8	And then he goes, I want to, I want to know, I want to be able to sort of savor great pitching a little more.
0:45.6	And so therefore, I think it needs to be a little more rare.
0:52.7	Hello, everybody.
0:53.5	And welcome to the best podcast in baseball.
0:55.5	Brought to you by Clause by Design of St. Louis.
0:57.2	I'm St. Louis Post Dispatch Baseball writer Derek Gould.
0:59.5	Join this week by New York Times baseball columnist and author of K,
1:04.7	The History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, Tyler Kepner.
1:07.9	I thought if we're going to talk about inspections and pitches and spin
1:12.3	rates and all the things that people do to goop up pitches to get an edge, who better to go
1:17.4	to than the guy who literally wrote the book on pitches, right, Tyler?
1:22.7	Yes, I did, yep. I've never wet one up or gooped anything with spider tack, but yeah, it was
1:33.0	certainly, it's not too surprising that this became a big deal, because pitchers have been
1:39.1	trying to do whatever they could to get it a little edge, you know, since the beginning of pitching.
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