How a team aimless in July can become champion by October

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A year ago, the Atlanta Braves had yet to see .500 and were scrambling to acquire outfielders in the same way the Cardinals tried to find starting pitchers. Through a series of shrewd moves, the Braves rebuilt their lineup at the trade deadline and everything clicked -- at the best possible time. As one executive said during the confetti-splashed celebration of the Braves' 2021 World Series championship: That is why you play to get in the playoffs and just see what happens. Dave O'Brien, the longtime Braves beat writer now at The Athletic, joins the Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss how a team struggling in July can become a champion by October. And, if Atlanta is now the team they imagined having -- and even better than they were before. The Cardinals troubles with the NL East are explored, and so is the skills of a manager rewarded for his devotion to the organization. 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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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
0:05.7	Update your closet, garage, office, pantry, and more.
0:09.0	Imagine your home totally organized with closets by design.
0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800-by-design.
0:17.5	It's a rotation that if they're all healthy, would give them a chance to win every postseason games.
0:30.3	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closet by Design of St. Louis.
0:34.6	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould.
0:37.1	Join this week in Atlanta by the great DOB himself, Dave O'Brien, the Braves beat rider for
0:45.0	the athletic and longtime baseball writer. Such a longtime baseball writer, we go way back to Florida,
0:50.5	right, knowing each other? Though you didn't know me, but I definitely knew you.
0:56.3	Yeah, I'm probably one of the few you talked to that's been doing it longer than you.
1:01.4	See, that keeps coming up. Hey, I just want to start like just by jumping right into it with,
1:06.2	by telling you a quick story. So I'm on the field as the Braves last year are celebrating the World Series
1:13.5	Championship. There's confetti everywhere. They're passing around the trophy around, everything
1:17.5	like that, Snickers, celebrating Freeman is being asked about being a free agent, all that's going on.
1:23.6	And one member of the, I believe it was of the front office, maybe ownership, came out to me and he goes, see, this is why all you have to do is get in.
1:34.9	If you get in, anything is possible.
1:38.5	Yeah.
1:38.9	And I'm struck by that because so many fans with the Cardinals and I'm sure fan bases,
1:44.9	they want moves that make October a given.
1:49.0	But that's not how it works, right?
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