BPIB Season No. 14 premieres with Cardinals spring training roundtable
Best Podcast in Baseball
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
JUPITER, Fla. -- On the even of the Cardinals opening their full-squad workouts for spring training, four reporters covering the camp gather at a table nearby the brand new complex to discuss the bran new questions facing a club in a rebuild.
Best Podcast in Baseball begins its 14th season as the leading podcast about the Cardinals and baseball in St. Louis with host Derrick Goold joined by KMOV/Channel 4 sports anchor Tamar Sher and two St. Louis Post-Dispatch colleagues, baseball writer Daniel Guerrero and columnist Benjamin Hochman for a roundtable discussion about what spring means and what spring must prove for the Cardinals.
The group discusses the players with the most opportunity this spring, the people facing the most pressure this spring, the player most likely to make the most of this spring, and also just how to judge a team that is departing from the franchise's historical pursuit of the next pennant to something more nebulous -- the next core.
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 | It's a brand new best podcast in baseball, the 14th season of the best podcast in baseball. It's a roundtable discussion at the start of spring training for the St. Louis Cardinals. Cue the music. You want to do it for me? No, that would have been the best podcast on the minors type move. Oh, do it, do it. Do the music. Dum-dum, bum, chik-ch-ch. |
| 0:22.5 | You've got to give it a little more. |
| 0:23.8 | That's amazing. |
| 0:24.3 | That's amazing. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello, everybody, |
| 0:31.6 | and welcome to the best podcast in baseball. |
| 0:33.3 | Brought to you by Closet by Design of St. Louis. |
| 0:46.9 | I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined this week to start off the 14th season of BPIB by a roundtable that features two riders, me and Tamar share of KMOV. |
| 0:50.8 | Very excited to have you. We'll just start right off with you tomorrow. |
| 0:55.0 | What's been your impressions of spring training so far? |
| 0:59.6 | Spring training really unlike any, at least a generation here in Jupiter, where the Cardinals are in deep rebuild mode, not contention mode. |
| 1:04.6 | Well, that's the case. |
| 1:05.7 | I still feel like there's a lot of good energy. |
| 1:08.2 | There is a sense of opportunity, |
| 1:10.4 | and people are coming into the |
| 1:11.5 | clubhouse with vibes high knowing that they have the opportunity to be able to run with whatever |
| 1:17.3 | they want to do. So whether that is a Mason win who is coming off a gold glove year but still |
| 1:22.8 | feels as though he can do more, that he can win more gold gloves, or you have a guy like JJ |
| 1:29.4 | Weatherholt who could find himself in an opening day lineup. |
| 1:33.1 | There are a lot of things to be excited about in a way that these younger faces are now |
| 1:40.2 | getting an opportunity because what we saw in the off season, you don't have those veteran |
| 1:46.4 | guys and you don't have a Brendan Donovan who was a leader in the clubhouse. Well, now younger guys |
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