Crank up the volume! Cardinals need to deal in bulk for pitching

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to the Cardinals' needs for pitching, this is not the offseason to fixate on one name or one solutions, argues St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson. This is the winter to deal in volume -- most Costco, less Hublot. Frederickson takes over hosting duties for a brand new BPIB featuring Derrick Goold, the usual host and usual Post-Dispatch baseball writer.

The two writers discuss the pitching options for the Cardinals, the pitching approaches, and just what Cardinals officials mean when they talk about adding "2 1/2 pitchers." What's a half pitcher? Why is it taking so long for the market to move?

Goold offers the view of the Cardinals from the GM Meetings, where the industry noted how motivated the Cardinals and executive John Mozeliak appear to be and how the Cardinals and ownership must still prove they're willing to back that motivation with the finances necessary to be a player in the free-agent marketplace for pitchers.

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, who is gradually getting his voice back.

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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	This doesn't feel like the off-season to me where it's the right thing or the smart thing to get like all caught up on one name.
0:23.8	Go get Bryce Harper. Go get Wilson Contreras. That was that was, you know, what I was championing last year.
0:29.4	I think the Cardinals have to be looking at all of their options. They're going to have to get multiple pitchers, multiple high levellevel pitchers, multiple additions to this rotation,
0:39.1	and also this bullpen, if they're going to make good on their chance to come back next season
0:43.8	and make sure this season was an outlier.
0:52.6	Hello, everybody, and welcome into the best podcast in baseball.
0:56.4	I'm not Derek Gould.
0:58.0	I'm supposed to spatch sports column to spin Fredrickson, but Derek Gould is with me,
1:01.5	and we are getting ready to talk some Cardinals baseball.
1:04.2	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design of St. Louis.
1:09.2	And I got to tell you, Closet by Design in St. Louis is who we went with, Derek, to do our
1:13.3	new daughter's closet.
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