Hello, 2024. What way is the wind blowing as Cardinals open pivotal spring for top players, management?

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On a windy day on the back fields of Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla., Mike Claiborne, one of the radio voices of the Cardinals, joins baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss how maybe Flag Day is too late in the schedule to determine where the club is headed in 2024. So it's time for an earlier Claiborne appearnce.

It's a Leap Year. It's after a losing season. It's after a last-place season. That date will come much earlier. Claiborne, a regular on the Best Podcast in Baseball around Flag Day, the day he has annually suggested it's time to check the standing, agrees with the premise that it could be Memorial Day this season, or even May Day.

As spring training activities, Florida gusts, and one mower swirl around them, Claiborn and St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff writer Goold discuss pivotal years for Nolan Arenado, Paul Goldschmidt, and the Cardinals leadership.

They also discuss what a lineup could look like with the left-handed options or if it's someday built around young sluggers Nolan Gorman and Jordan Walker.

Goold asks Claiborne three questions to close out the episode: Can a player be a Cardinal great without playoff success? What tone has he seen set in spring training to match the importance of the season? And, finally, what's at stake for the Cardinals this season that moves up the Flag Day reality check?

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.

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0:16.8	That was a great thing about some of the teams that Tony managed.
0:21.3	You know, they would just, you know what, they would just beat you to the point where Uncle,
0:25.6	they didn't care whether you were 20 games over 500 or 20 games under 500.
0:30.9	It didn't make a difference.
0:31.9	They would just, they may come into Bush Stadium a very daunting task.
0:37.0	And they've got to get back to that mindset.
0:46.5	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by
0:49.3	Closet by Design.
0:50.3	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatched baseball writer Derek Gould joined, and I'm thrilled to start spring training podcast off here with the Mike Claiborne, one of the voices of the Cardinals
1:01.7	on the Cardinals Radio Network. And we also figured out that, like, now you're the, you've been here
1:07.8	longer than anyone, right? What was your first spring training?
1:12.7	The spring of 81.
1:18.1	That was my first one. Right after Reagan, in comes Claiborne.
1:24.6	Exactly. And it was over in St. Petersburg, which is a completely different setup to what we have here.
1:28.7	You had Allang Stadium, you had the hotel across the street,
1:34.4	and then about a 15, 20 minute drive was the other Cardinal complex where everybody did the work, the workouts. They'd have a big weight room at that point. But that's where it all started.
1:39.1	Did they have a parade of golf carts, or was golf carts not a thing that you had to drive?
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