New Year, Big Question: Can Cardinals compete in a Steve Cohen National League?

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Looking ahead to 2023 with Kevin Wheeler, of KMOX/1120 AM, and how what must happen for the Cardinals to challenge for a championship in the next year has its roots in one of the most remarkable things to happen in the past year. The biggest story of 2022 for the St. Louis Cardinals was an obvious one: Albert Pujols' homecoming and successful quest for 700 home runs. So captivating was Pujols' second half production that it surpassed an MVP season from Paul Goldschmidt and a division title as the leading highlight of 2022, but it leaves the Cardinals with a strikingly familiar offseason question: How do they fill Pujols production? It's 2011 all over again. Except it's not. It's 2022, and this is Steve Cohen's National League. The Mets' owner stunned Major League Baseball by continuing his free-spending and reportedly signing Carlos Correa to a massive, $300-million deal shortly after a massive, $300-million deal with San Francisco Giants dissolved due to the physical. This podcast was recorded before that news. But the comments and evaluations still apply. Just change the teams. And heighten the description of the Mets' spending. 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.
0:05.6	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.
0:14.5	That's 1-800-by-design.
0:17.1	Albert by committee, essentially.
0:19.2	Right, right, yeah.
0:19.9	I mean, again, I think that, you know, this is not an easy thing to replace.
0:25.4	And this is going to probably make people angry, but, you know, I don't care about that.
0:30.5	I'm not seeking that outside the organization right now if I'm in charge.
0:36.4	Please note this podcast and the conversation that follows was recorded before the late
0:41.1	night zaniness that took Carlos Correa from more than $300 million with the San Francisco
0:46.7	Giants to a stunning, surprising, $300 million contract with the New York Mets.
0:53.4	All the points made are still valid.
0:55.8	Just change the teams and maybe put an emphasis on what the Mets are doing because
1:01.9	welcome to Steve Cohen's world.
1:09.3	Hello everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you you by Closzit by Design of St. Louis.
1:13.7	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould.
1:16.3	Join this week at the end of the year with the guest Everybody Clammers for All Year,
1:22.3	and that is, of course, my good friend, Kevin Wheeler of Camelax, the the voice extraordinaire, and co-host of the Dave Glover show.
1:30.6	Kevin, happy holidays.
1:32.2	Hey, happy holidays, you buddy.
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