Catching up on Cardinals best bets before leaving Las Vegas

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Should the Cardinals roll the dice on Willson Contreras? Should they hold to their defensive wishes at catcher? NBC Sports Chicago baseball writer Gordon Wittenmyer joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss the direction the Cardinals could go at catcher, including the former Cubs backstop. Plus, a discussion on NL Central competition and rising payrolls, and how the Cardinals can aim higher than a division chocked with rebuilding teams. They can play at the $25 tables. Oh, and Wittenmyer plays the slots. Whether it was the setting (Las Vegas), the proximity to the World Series, or the firsrt chance for executives and agents to meet after the cancellation of the 2021 MLB Winter Meetings, this year's GM Meetings had a different vibe. It was active. Or, at least, it felt like a prelude to action. The Cardinals went looking for options at catcher, and came away with a better sense of the trade market and a conversation with at least the representatives for free-agent Christian Vazquez. 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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0:34.5	Hello, everybody.
0:35.2	Welcome to the best podcast in baseball.
0:36.6	Brought to you by Clasasas by Design of St. Louis. I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould. Join today
0:41.3	here in Las Vegas. So I guess we're technically leaving Las Vegas by Gordon Whitemeyer, who is
0:50.1	going to regale us with tales of the north side and opinions from Chicago of NBC Sports, Chicago.
0:57.4	If I can draw them away from the slot machine here, right?
1:00.3	That's what this is?
1:01.8	Yeah, I'm already down a little bit.
1:04.5	Yeah, you can, I've got time in between losses here.
1:09.7	So make the case for, I should, thatittemeyer, NBC Sports Chicago, long-time Cubs B-rider of the
1:16.6	Chicago sometimes, long-time baseball rider has covered twins and, what, angels and mariners,
1:24.6	yeah, just all over the place, until you came to the National League and started
1:28.4	to learn how baseball was covered, right? Yeah, all right. Make the case for Wilson Contreras.
1:34.6	Why should the Cardinals pull the lever and hope that it comes out, triple sevens with Wilson
1:41.0	Contreras?
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