Cardinals GM Michael Girsch talks trades, challenges, championships expectations with BPIB

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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"Our fans want to win today. But our fans want to win every year," says Cardinals vice president/general manager Michael Girsch as he joins the Best Podcast in Baseball for the first time to discuss his rise to becoming the 13th GM in organization history and the expectations ownership sets for the club. Girsch, a native of Chicago, joined the Cardinals before the 2006 World Series championship season, worked his way up through the baseball operations structure, and became general manager in June 2017. He's had the position since. With St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer and BPIB host Derrick Goold, Girsch offers insight into how trades are made at the deadline, how the Cardinals' pitching depth has come up lacking two years in a row, and how there's been a Hall of Famer on the field for every generation, and that's something ownership expects. Girsch also discusses his entry into baseball, finding a door that opened in the wake of Moneyball, and the surprises he found once inside the room where things really happen, and not observing from the spreadsheet of an consultant. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design, is a weekly 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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0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800 by design.
0:17.1	Mr. DeWitt, he wants us to win all the time, and he wants us to have sort of franchise-type players.
0:22.7	Like, that's part of what the Cardinals have is we have Hall of Famers on the field almost all the time, right?
0:27.4	There's almost always someone who's a Hall of Fame caliber player on our team.
0:30.4	That's part of what it means to be this organization.
0:33.7	It's to be competitive every year and to have legit superstars on the roster. And so sometimes it works out really well.
0:40.0	And I don't think anyone around here wants to give back the Goldschmidt or Aeronado deal.
0:44.7	And sometimes you watch Sandy Alcantara's 1-8-ERA and 200 innings already or whatever he's at.
0:51.7	And you're like, oh, that one kind of nipped us in the bud.
1:03.7	Hello, everybody.
1:04.5	And welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design of St. Louis.
1:08.0	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek.
1:09.8	We'll join this week from Bush Stadium. Are you at Bush Stadium?
1:14.7	I am. From Bush Stadium. That's vice president and general manager of the St. Louis
1:19.9	Cardinals Michael Gersh. Gersh, thank you very much for joining me. I'm looking forward to
1:24.8	this conversation. Do you introduce yourself as, what, a long-time
1:29.0	listener, first-time guest? I think that's right. I think, yes, I think long-time listener,
1:36.1	first-time podcast guest, it would be a good description. So I will start, I just want to jump right
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