Best Podcast in Baseball 9.15: Apprise of the Guardians

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Whether it's a Spiders roster transplanted to St. Louis and a nickname abandoned or how they're perched together in the middling middle of the majors, Cleveland and the Cardinals have an intertwined baseball history (and present) beyond their rare series against each other. Anthony Castrovince, MLB.com national baseball columnist and MLB Network contributor, joins the Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss the most significant and inevitable news in his hometown of Cleveland: The ball club has a new name. The Cleveland Guardians will debut in 2022. Castrovince talks with St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold about Cleveland's name change, about his advocacy of the Spiders, about the modern Cardinals getting their start when the Spiders moved to St. Louis (kind of), and how much the Cardinals and future Guardians have in common -- from an ability to develop pitching to a need to develop a hitter to that dangerous, uncomfortable limbo teams find themselves in these days when they win just enough to be good but never enough to be great. 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.
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0:16.0	I think they're at a real crossroads, to be honest, because they made this known R and Outer Trade.
0:22.5	They have had some good things happen this year.
0:24.2	I think the development of the outfield is something that, if you told me that happens going into the season,
0:28.4	I figured the Cardinals are aware a lot of people pegged them to be at the top of the Central,
0:31.7	but obviously injuries elsewhere have kind of gotten away. And I know it's been a frustrating year, but they've had a lot of misses on the trade front and the free agent front.
0:40.9	And those have kind of caught up with them over the years.
0:50.6	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design of St. Louis.
0:55.0	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould. Join this week by MLB.com's All-Everything
1:01.2	and National Baseball columnist Anthony Kastrovitz. I'm here in Cleveland, your town,
1:07.4	and of course they snuck it in right around the time of the Olympic opening ceremonies
1:13.2	on one of the great Friday news dumps of all time in baseball history.
1:18.7	But this is soon to be the home of the Guardians.
1:21.3	What was your reaction over coffee on Friday when you found out?
1:27.0	Well, I had a pretty good inkling. It was coming.
1:29.9	And it's something we've anticipated all season. You know, you know, a pretty good idea was going to be
1:35.0	by the end of the season. And that they really had to have something done mid-year here in this
1:40.6	month of July because they need to get the process started of merchandise and
1:45.0	marketing, et cetera. There's a lot that goes into an overhaul like this. And then that day in
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