Core question: Have Cardinals identified Chaim Bloom's starting foundation or is an overhaul ahead?

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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As the Cardinals approach the onrushing July 31 trade deadline, what if the moves made (or not made) are just prelude to a larger overhaul of the organization in the opening months of Chaim Bloom's tenure leading baseball operations.

A simple, direct, but essential question about whether the Cardinals four months into their "runway" season have identified the core of their next contending team prompts a lengthy discussion about what's still missing, what hasn't emerged, and what players have made their best case to be part of the foundation upon which Bloom is expected to build a contending team?

That is where the conversation between St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold and KMOX/104.1 FM host Kevin Wheeler continues, and where it goes touches on future talents, the need for stars, and even the environment at the ballpark.

In its 13th season as one of the first and most popular Cardinals-related podcasts, the Best Podcast in Baseball in sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis. BPIB is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	In the previous episode of the best podcast in baseball, Kevin Wheeler of Camelax and I talked about
0:04.4	the trade deadline. And what could shove the Cardinals out of the middle ground? If not the
0:08.6	standings, then could it be the offers? That led to a conversation about not just the current
0:14.7	situation with the trade deadline, but how it could influence the future we get to the crux of it.
0:20.4	And that is the question of given all this time, four months of quote unquote runway,
0:26.8	who is in Heim's core when it comes to competing?
0:30.9	Who has defined themselves as a player that when it comes time for the Heim Bloom era to make a push for a division title,
0:39.9	a pennant, maybe even a championship, has said through this season, they're in that core.
0:46.0	Is the answer, J.J. Weatherholt?
0:48.9	Or is it more?
0:50.4	We talk about it in a brand new best podcast in baseball.
0:53.5	You know the drill.
0:54.7	Cue the music.
1:02.2	Hello, everybody, and welcome to a continuation of the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closet by Design of St. Louis.
1:07.6	Really no introductions are necessary.
1:09.4	You know me.
1:09.8	I'm Derek Gould.
1:10.5	You know the person I've been talking to. KMOX's 104.1 FM's Kevin Wheeler. Where we left off was the simple
1:16.7	question of, all right, what players don't the Cardinals have enough information on? What
1:21.4	Cardinals, what prospects, what young players who they wanted to give this runway to, do they
1:26.7	not know enough about yet four months into the season
1:30.7	that they're going to learn more about with two months left in the season?
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