First impressions: Cardinals top prospect JJ Wetherholt readies for debut at major-league spring training

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On the eve of his first major-league spring training with the St. Louis Cardinals, top prospect JJ Wetherholt joins the Best Podcast in Baseball for a discussion about his preparation, his health, his strides as a pro, his goals at shortstop, and his of a new technology to learn more about reaction time. He also details the trouble with the water temp in Florida. Wetherholt is a "brand ambassador" for Pison, a Boston-based biotech company that is launching a new product and expanded studies in baseball to help with reaction-time measurements and decision-making development. Wetherholt spoke about Pison and much more with St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold for an article and this companion podcast.

The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is available weekly wherever you find your podcasts and its a fixture of the constant Cardinals coverage at StlToday.com. A production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and host Derrick Goold, BPIB is approaching its 13th year as the leading podcast about baseball in St. Louis and the St. Louis Cardinals.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:16.9	Hello, everybody, and welcome to a brand new best podcast in baseball.
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0:21.3	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould.
0:23.7	And this week, conversation with Cardinals' top prospect, JJ Weatherholt.
0:28.4	The number seven overall pick in this most recent summer's amateur draft has been in Jupiter,
0:34.5	working out with some of his peers, working out with some of the Cardinals, new coaches, and working toward his first major league spring training.
0:42.3	He also was working with some new tech to help him not only measure, but also maintain his
0:48.3	reaction time.
0:49.5	And that was a big part of our conversation, just trying to learn what that technology was allowing him to do
0:55.1	and how he was applying it. But then, of course, how he looked at the opportunity that he has
0:59.9	this spring in Jupiter. The interview resulted in a story that ran in the post dispatch, but it was
1:04.7	a conversation that, well, it fit a podcast. So here's my whole conversation with shortstop and West Virginia alum, JJ Weatherholt.
1:14.8	Cue the music. Maybe it's time we get a theme song around here.
1:26.0	Hi, JJ. This is J.J. Weatherholt, seventh overall pick for the Cardinals, and I believe you're joining me from Jupiter, right, where you're already kind of getting a head start on spring training.
1:35.3	What are some of the things that you're able to do down there right now at the Cardinal Complex in Jupiter, Florida?
1:41.3	Yes, sir. We got a good group of guys down here just training,
1:44.7	got a bunch of staff members that came back to
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