Playoff Preview: Cardinals' quest through stacked NL begins with Phillies

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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"And there isn't a Chris Carpenter walking through the door." A playoff preview with KMOX/1120 AM host Kevin Wheeler and St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold. After 11 years, the Philadelphia Phillies are back in the playoffs and awaiting them -- why it's the same team that eliminated them in 2011 and changed the course of that franchise. The Cardinals welcome the Phillies for a best-of-three wild-card series all played at Busch Stadium in the first weekend of Major League Baseball's expanded postseason. Wheeler and Goold discuss the top-end pitching edge the Phillies have with tandem right-handed aces and whether the Cardinals can counter with pitching depth. What are the matchups to watch? And what brutal rounds await the team that advances with Atlanta and the Los Angeles Dodgers looming as some of the best teams the NL has seen since, well, that 2011 Phillies team was really good, too. 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.
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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.
0:17.0	I think you're right in general.
0:18.5	The Cardinals have to win with their big guys.
0:21.6	And I guess if I wanted to be as simple as possible, Derek, I'm going to quote Ken Hitchcock.
0:25.7	Your best players have to be your best players.
0:27.9	You need Goldie and Aronado to be MVP caliber players in the playoffs if you're going to make the run.
0:33.3	And if they are, you got a shot because those are the guys you need to beat good pitching, right?
0:37.6	You need your best hitters to beat good pitching.
0:40.5	And if those guys aren't, and I don't think you're going to be around very long.
0:50.9	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Clauses by Design of St. Louis.
0:55.4	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould.
0:58.0	Join this week and just in time by KMOX, broadcaster, host of the show.
1:05.1	It's Kevin Wheeler. Kevin, great timing because we were going to talk a few weeks ago about some of the rule changes
1:12.2	and everything. And we'll get to that later in the winter. But as we're talking, we're a few
1:18.0	hours removed from the Cardinals knowing who they're going to play in the playoffs. It's the Philadelphia
1:22.3	Phillies. How about that? So for the Phillies first time back in the postseason in 11 years, it's the same
1:28.6	team that knocked them out last time. Yeah. And what a way they did. That brings me to my first
1:33.9	question, Kevin, where were you when the rally squirrel scampered across Skip Schumacher's? I was, I believe
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