Forget the standings. Can future-focused Cardinals let offers shove them off the fence at trade deadline?

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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As Major League Baseball's July 31 trade deadline rapidly approaches, so does another opportunity for the Cardinals to choose a side. Are they riding this "runway" toward the future, or are they going to tighten the race for the National League's third wild card to a point that they stand pat or add on the edges of the roster?

The Cardinals' trends of risk aversion and playing it down the middle is about to be challenged.

And, at the same time, the trade deadline may invite more questions than they have answers.

In Part 1 of an extended conversation about the Cardinals at the trade deadline (Part 1) and the Cardinals nearing the Chaim Bloom takeover (Part 2), KMOX/104.1 FM's Kevin Wheeler joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch lead baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss all the implications of moves the Cardinals could make, and why a "soft buy" or "slight sell" may be more of the same even if either is the right move for 2025.

This episode ends with a provocative question about what have the Cardinals really learned about their next generation of contenders from the season.

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	Welcome to a brand new best podcast in baseball.
0:02.2	It's Trade Dunlone Week.
0:03.1	So what else are we going to talk about?
0:04.4	And who else are we going to talk to about it?
0:06.1	It's KMOX's Kevin Wheeler, joining for his pretty much monthly segment here on the BBIB.
0:11.7	You know the drill.
0:13.3	Cue the music.
0:25.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design of St. Louis.
0:32.2	I'm St. Louis Post Dispatch Baseball writer Derek Gould, joined again by my good friend and the voice you all know and love.
0:40.8	It's KMOX 1120. Oh, I need to do the FM now. Oh, yeah. 104.1, baby. 104.1 baby. KMOX.
0:46.3	Can you do it like the trucker, like the Sunday, Sunday, Sunday guys? Like 104.1, KMOX.
1:18.2	I could. All right, let's try this again. It's a voice you all know and love. 104.1 FM, KMOX, Kevin Wheeler. Look at that. Did I do it? That's my best. That's my best. That's my best. That's my best Mike Farron. He's the best, man. I love Mike. He is the best. And he's probably listening right now. He's like, that is not a good Mike Farron. It's not, but once not but once you said it i got it's as close as i can get to this is why i write for all right all right kevin let's get going it's trade deadline week uh clock is ticking to july 31st it's nice of major
1:23.1	league baseball to put it back at july 31st because yeah that's the date we all have grown up knowing as the
1:28.5	trade deadline. Let's just start right off. You're the St. Louis Cardinals, Kevin Wheeler,
1:36.2	buy or sell? Well, so. Oh, enough. Come on. No, listen, we've been, I've been joking about this all week.
1:45.2	Oh, you're fitting right in with the Cardinals.
1:47.1	Exactly. This is exactly my point. Like, it's never clear. It's never clear.
1:52.5	Like in the, in the last three or four years, when has anything ever been clear?
1:56.4	It's, it's just always muddy. It's always just when you think they're done, they rise from the ashes. And just when you think they figured things out, they poop the bed. It's like, what? I don't understand any of it's now. I'll be, I'll be honest, because of all of that, I'm getting to my answer because of this. Because of all of that. I'm not buying.
2:22.7	You know, I can't, I've been playing this yo-yo middle of the road back and forth thing now for several years.
2:24.4	So is not buying.
2:25.3	Does that mean selling?
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