Best Podcast in Baseball 9.30: Covering the Globe with Jesse Sanchez

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The annual opening of the international signing period has been nicknamed "Jesse Sanchez Day" because of the attention, care, insight and depth of coverage MLB.com baseball writer Jesse Sanchez has brought to that market and the talents it introduces to baseball and baseball fans. In a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball, recorded a few days after the Jan. 15 opening of the international market, Sanchez talks with St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold about the challenges that faced players and scouts alike as they negotiated deals and identified players during a global pandemic. More than just the calendar shifted. Sanchez also offers a scouting report on the prized signing by the Cardinals -- switch-hitting shortstop Jonathan Mejia, a 16-year-old from the Dominican Republic. Plus, the two writers detail how the Cardinals scouted and ultimately signed Won-Bin Cho, the teenage slugger from South Korea who is also the first amateur player from Asia to sign with the Cardinals. 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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0:12.0	Call 1-800 by Design.
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0:17.0	Now he has a hit tool that's going to make him, you know,
0:20.0	it has a potential to be a really special hitter.
0:22.2	You know, he has advanced plate coverage, flashes of plus power.
0:26.1	He's probably going to have slightly above average power in games, really good back speed, good arm, all the things you want in shortstop.
0:45.1	Hello everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you by Closet by Design of St. Louis.
0:46.2	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould.
0:48.6	And it's Jesse Sanchez Day on the podcast.
0:52.4	Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com. He covers the international signing so well,
0:57.8	I hope I get this right, Jesse, that they call it Jesse Sanchez Day. I haven't heard it
1:02.4	referenced down that way on MLB Radio Network. Yeah. So this is Jesse Sanchez Day part two,
1:13.5	as we have you on to talk about the international signing period.
1:15.6	Jesse's a great friend. He and I have been to some remarkable places together, to the Dominican, to Havana, a very memorable evening riding in a pink convertible through the streets of Havana, right?
1:27.9	Right. Ladies' Night. They were, when Cool in a gang's ladies' night was blasting
1:31.8	as they're riding through this convertible. It was crazy. It was funny. And I, I'm sitting here
1:37.6	in the treehouse studios, as we call it, but really just my desk. And I have a treasured copy
1:43.4	of Old Man in the Sea that you sent me from
1:46.7	another trip that you made to Havana because we could not find it that night. So thank you very
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