Cardinals' forecast calls for a bustling Winter Meetings
Best Podcast in Baseball
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
From the start of the offseason and the beginning for a new front officer leader, the Cardinals have signaled their priority this winter is to accumulate talent that will help them contend in the future.
They began that process by trading Sonny Gray and $20 million to the Boston Red Sox for a pair of pitching prospects, Richard Fitts and Brandon Clarke, and now the Cardinals' pursuit continues with the arrival of MLB's biggest gathering of the Hot Stove season. The Winter Meetings are coming.
To discuss the Cardinals' to-do list for the Winter Meetings, KMOX/104.1 FM's Kevin Wheeler rejoins the Best Podcast in Baseball. He and BPIB host Derrick Goold discuss the Cardinals' search to trade Nolan Arenado and what happens if another winter passes without a deal; which of the players nearing free agency, such as Brendan Donovan and JoJo Romero, will help the Cardinals achieve their goal of accumulating young talent; and what does a contract extension look like for manager Oli Marmol.
The significant National Baseball Hall of Fame vote set for Dec. 7 is also discussed.
This is the first of two episodes because what started as a short conversation spilled into a heated debate about, oh, just the future economic structure of baseball. Look for that bonus BPIB shortly.
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.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a brand new best podcast in baseball. This week I'm joined again by recurring guest at a perfect time. It's KMOX's Kevin Wheeler. |
| 0:09.4 | We're set to talk about the winter meetings, preview the Cardinals going shopping for young talent to fit their future window of contention. |
| 0:17.3 | We also might sprinkle in some Hall of Fame conversation as a pretty big vote |
| 0:21.0 | is going to happen this weekend in Orlando on the eve of Major League Baseball's annual |
| 0:27.7 | gathering around the hot stove. That's right. Winter meetings are coming. You got to get the |
| 0:35.4 | Sean Bean accent going. Yeah, I should have nailed that. |
| 0:38.6 | Winter is coming. |
| 0:40.2 | That was a little more Liam Neeson. |
| 0:42.0 | You want to try again? |
| 0:43.1 | No. |
| 0:45.3 | I don't do a good Sean Bean. |
| 0:48.7 | Cue the music. |
| 1:01.5 | Hello, everybody. Hello everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm St. Louis Post Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined. |
| 1:05.2 | Well, you already know. |
| 1:06.3 | You listen to the intro. |
| 1:07.4 | You heard his laugh. |
| 1:08.7 | All of it fits in there. |
| 1:10.3 | It's Kevin Wheeler of K Camelax I believe he is featured |
| 1:13.0 | 22 out of the 24 hours now on Camelux do I have that right uh it there are days where that may |
| 1:22.0 | happen yeah okay yeah maybe yeah I mean you're on DGS you're on gas house. You're on Gas House Gang. You're on Red Bird. |
| 1:28.9 | I mean, you're Kevin, winter meetings start up next week. |
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