Cardinals TV's Dani Wexelman relishes baseball stories she's ready to tell in her new role
Best Podcast in Baseball
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
WASHINGTON -- In a recent social media post, baseball broadcaster and reporter Dani Wexelman shared a photo of her interviewing Matthew Liberatore when he was a high schooler and juxtaposed it with a photo of her interviewing him this year as the Cardinals' opening day starter.
That is a great illustration of the arc of Wexelman's career telling baseball stories, from the backfields of Jupiter, Florida, covering amateur baseball and rising talents to front and center now with Cardinals.TV to capture what the club hopes is a rising team.
Wexelman joins Best Podcast in Baseball host Derrick Goold while both of them are in Washington, D.C., covering the Cardinals to discuss the start to the 2026 season as well as the path that brought Wexelman to Mizzou and the back this year as a prominent part of the Cardinals' broadcasts. They also discuss how Wexelman's experience covering amateur baseball for many years and being a national pundit looking at Major League Baseball through a broader lens informs what she plans to bring to telling stories during these Cardinals' "new era."
In its 14th 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. My guest this week is Danny Wexelman, |
| 0:03.8 | sideline reporter, host baseball storyteller there at Cardinals TV. She's back in St. Louis |
| 0:10.5 | to help bring Cardinal baseball games on TV to the fans while continuing some of her work |
| 0:15.8 | on the radio and throughout baseball. Danny has a fascinating story. She's got a great gift for telling the story of |
| 0:22.7 | the game, and I cannot wait to talk to her about it and how her background reporting on amateur |
| 0:29.1 | baseball, and baseball development specifically puts her in a great position to tell the story of |
| 0:35.7 | the 2026 Cardinals. That's enough prelude. Cue the music. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould, joined this week by Cardinals TV reporter and so many other titles I could go on and on and on and I'd probably only get half of them. |
| 1:09.3 | It's of course St. Louis native, |
| 1:11.6 | Mazu May, Danny Wexelman. |
| 1:13.5 | I wanna begin by saying welcome home, right? |
| 1:16.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.8 | Absolutely, yes, thank you so much. |
| 1:20.8 | It doesn't get old hearing that. |
| 1:22.0 | I really appreciate it. |
| 1:23.4 | We are in DC wrapping up the first of the Cardinals road trip. |
| 1:29.6 | And I wonder, let's just start like general. |
| 1:31.4 | Like, what has struck you, A, about this team on the field? |
| 1:38.9 | And then I want to ask you about, like, what it's been like covering the team, |
| 1:42.6 | sort of going from, like, from, you know, a national perspective to a hyper intense local perspective so quickly. |
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