New Cardinals reliever Andrew Kittredge talks trade, slider, and his Huskies

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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New Cardinals reliever Andrew Kittredge, less than 72 hours after the trade that brought him from Tampa Bay to St. Louis, talks with the Best Podcast in Baseball and host Derrick Goold about the move, and why it wasn't entirely unexpected. Kittredge also details the slider that got him to the majors, and how the Rays and their creative and collaborative pitching culture accelerated his career and gave him the opportunity to pitch in the majors, in high-leverage situations, in the playoffs, and in the All-Star Game. Kittredge details his approach to pitching and dives into some of the analytics behind his pitch use. During the podcast, the Cardinals readied to announce Chaim Bloom as a new advisor within the front office, and Kittredge discusses how Bloom played a big part in bringing him to the Rays. Kittredge joined the BPIB from Washington and while he did not sport the beard he often does on the mound, he did wear a Huskies cap as the NCAA national championship football game approached. So, of course, the hat and lack of a beard is discussed. 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 baseball writer Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:14.4	That's 1-800-by-design.
0:17.3	And basically, the way I looked at is I got good enough to get traded, you know, good enough to where someone else noticed and wanted to take a chance on me.
0:26.4	I think getting traded to the raise for the purposes of my career thus far has been, you know, the most important thing to happen to my career so far.
0:42.4	Okay. to my career so far. Hello everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you by
0:45.3	Closets by Design of St. Louis.
0:47.0	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined this week,
0:49.9	and I'm going to get right to it because I'm very excited about what, 72 hours after he became a cardinal.
0:56.6	Right-handed reliever, Andrew Kittridge, is here on the best podcast in baseball.
1:00.1	Andrew, thank you for taking this time.
1:02.7	Yeah, thank you for having me.
1:04.4	It's been kind of a hectic weekend, but exciting at the same time.
1:08.6	So I appreciate having me on.
1:10.3	What's that like on
1:12.1	Friday? How does it play out for you that you, you find out that you're, you're on the move? Um,
1:17.9	and then do you begin looking at where you fit with a new team, who you know on a new team? How does
1:22.2	that all work? I think it the first 24 hours for me was just kind of trying to process everything.
1:28.5	You know, I wasn't completely caught off guard.
1:31.9	I knew that me personally, potentially this off-season could get moved.
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