Cardinals promise competition this spring (again). Enter Jordan Walker.

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Entering spring training, the Cardinals promised competition. No really this time. Seriously. And maybe top prospect Jordan Walker is an example why. Manager Oliver Marmol and John Mozeliak, president of baseball operations, acknowledged that in past springs they've said there is competition but they start February with an idea of the roster. Actions are going to have to say otherwise this spring. St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports Ben Frederickson makes the case that there is competition this spring, while baseball writer Derrick Goold suggests it's the same verse, different spring. They've had competition in the spring before and yet find themselves circling back to the same situation. They perpetually open up ways for young players in the outfield, and annually look to the next generation to seize the job the previous players with opportunity did not. Walker could flip the script, and he is off to a powerful start. And he's not alone. 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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0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800-by-design.
0:17.2	Who gets first chance?
0:18.9	Who gets an opportunity to lock the door?
0:21.3	Does Walker kick the door down?
0:23.5	You know, shining style? He's impressive, man.
0:26.6	You guys are seeing it. The speed, the arm, the ability to hit it with power and also just put it in play as well.
0:33.9	And the strategy is made defensively. And then he has a presence about him that we don't see in a lot of guys.
0:39.5	He's not nervous and he's not, he's not, hey, look at me, but if you look at him,
0:44.0	he's going to give reasons that want to keep looking.
0:50.5	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Clauses by Design of St. Louis.
0:54.6	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined today here in the dugout at Roger Dean Stadium from newly arrived, fresh to spring training, St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederson.
1:09.8	Ben, welcome to sunny, Florida.
1:11.2	It's beautiful. The skies are bright blue, that windex blue that I love to see. The clouds are
1:16.7	fluffy. The sun is shining. As I told Cardinals, uh, Cardinals PR man, Chris Tuno, it's been too
1:22.8	happy down here, so I've got to come down here and find something to be crappy about. No, I'm kidding. So you like the sun, but you're the storm clouds rolling in. Remember that the spring of discontent? I do very, yeah. That feels like forever ago when it was clear the Mathini era was coming unraveled. Yeah. That was a bad spring. This, I mean, you tell me you've been here from the very start.
1:46.2	You were the first.
1:47.0	I think you beat the players here, the ones you don't live here.
1:50.0	It seems like it's been in all serious.
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