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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Less than a month after two of the Cardinals' leading young position players started opening day side by side in outfield, bringing a glimpse of the future into the present, Jordan Walker and Victor Scott II are reunited this weekend at Class AAA Memphis. Early season offensive struggles have led to both outfieldres being optioned to the Cardinals' highest affiliate. Since the minor-leagues are in the headlines, who better to swing by for visit on the Best Podcast in Baseball than Post-Dispatch baseball writer Daniel Guerrero, who covers the minors daily for StlToday.com and the Post-Dispatch. He details what the messaging and assignment was for Walker in his return to Memphis and offers some insight into what the Cardinals can still see in their future. For Scott, it will be his first time at the Triple-A level. He leapfrogged Memphis to debut in the majors, just as Walker did a year ago. That's not the only event that seems to be repeating. At almost the exact same point in the season that he was demoted a year ago, Walker returned to Class AAA with some of the same assignments. As in 2023, he was given a few days in the big-leagues to work on adjustments in the cage. That was prelude to going to Triple-A, where, again this year, he'll spend several days in the hitting lab before moving to the lineup. The Cardinals believe both outfielders are going to be impact contributors in the near future. Their more pressing need is production -- both to ignite some confidence at their April struggles, but also to see a return on the work they've been doing with their swings away from the game. Walker returns to Memphis with a .155/.239/.259 slash line, and he's got a 50% groundball rate to go with a 4.8% line-drive rate. He's not getting the lift out of his swing that he did to close last season with a .276/.342/.445 slash line and hint at what was ahead for his second season. Guerrero discusses with BPIB host and Post-Dispatch colleague Derrick Goold what specific adjustments the Cardinals are looking for Walker to make with his swing and Scott to make with his offensive approach. Guerrero also offers three prospects to watch, including a real-time update on Sem Robberse's latest blitz through a Class AAA opponent. He's been joined at Triple-A by four members of the Cardinals' opening day roster. The churn is real -- and it's just beginning. 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. Next stop Detroit and some Vernor's ginger ale.
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0:16.0 | These guys have moved through the system together. |
0:19.0 | These guys have succeeded in the system together. And you know, you can kind of like dream about like, okay, maybe this is a big part of the future. |
0:26.7 | I think it is an interesting aspect when you look at it with Victor and Jordan, where it's like these guys opened the year in the majors together in the outfield and they'll be spending, you know, some time in Memphis together in the outfield because of some struggles and that need to work on things. |
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0:48.4 | I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined this week by my colleague and |
0:53.6 | fellow baseball writer at the Post Dispatch, |
0:56.1 | a guy who covers the minor league's organization for the Cardinals better than anyone else, |
1:01.2 | and thought this would be a good week to go to talk to Daniel Guerrero because, look, |
1:07.5 | the minors are kind of in the headlines here, right? |
1:10.7 | Two-thirds of the Cardinals' opening day outfield are now two-thirds of the Memphis Redbirds outfield. |
1:18.6 | Daniel, you were there when manager Oliver Mormole discussed with the reporters about optioning Jordan Walker back to AAA, about one year almost to the date that |
1:30.6 | they did the same thing last year. What was kind of the explanation? What should fans look for |
1:36.3 | or understand about that move? Yeah, well, first off, Derek, thanks for the invite on the pod. |
1:41.7 | It's always fun to join in. When you look at the move on, you know, this, what's today, Friday, this past Wednesday, |
1:49.4 | the Cardinals optioning Jordan Walker for the second time in his career. |
1:52.7 | Seems like it had like a little bit different. |
1:54.3 | I mean, it's obviously the same, you know, kind of tone that he's going to go down there to work on things. But, I mean, I guess the way Ollie Marble put it is that it was the best for Jordan Walker's |
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