And I thought of a I thought of a Tavares question. Oh, okay.

Who's here? Yeah. That was going to be our question. We were joking a minute ago that we were

just going to ask if you had heard of him.

Jump the gun. Like when Chris Farley interviews Paul McCartney.

Good morning and welcome to episode 148 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh in Long Beach, California,

Sam Miller, and in Madison, Wisconsin, as we just found out off the air, or an outlying suburb

of Madison, Wisconsin, the bustling metropolis that is Madison. Ken Funk is here to talk about

the Cardinals. Hello again, Ken. Good morning, Ben. Good evening, Sam. And after we talk to Ken,

Pete Barrett will talk to Joe Strauss, a sports columnist for the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

So the Cardinals, I was just looking over their off-season moves to refresh my memory as I do

before these podcasts. And there was not a lot to refresh my memory about.

It seems like the headliner is, I guess the headliner is people they just chose not to

resign maybe, but I mean, I guess the new edition is Randy Chote, is the highlight of the winter,

Ty Winkton maybe. And don't forget Ronnie Sedanio. Not Johnson. So it's a cavalcade of stars.

So was there anything that the Cardinals needed to do or should have done that they didn't do? Or

was this really just, they entered the winter with a team that was set everywhere and had the

luxury of not doing a whole lot? Well, I think they entered the winter with a team that was

pretty much set everywhere that they needed to be set. But if they had holes, they felt confident

and should feel confident that they can fill them from within. It's great that you're talking to

me today immediately after we released our top 101 prospect list, because if you may have noticed

there were seven Cardinals, no fewer than seven on our top 101 list this year, which is really

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