Potholes on the expressway of pitching development: Best Podcast in Baseball

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

About to start a long road trip out west, the Cardinals have already encountered some jarring potholes at the beginning of their season, from a split series vs. Pittsburgh to a botched series opener vs. Arizona. Pitching is the leading culprit. The rotation's contribution of two quality starts in the first 17 games has compromised a bullpen. The recent handling of Jordan Hicks spotlights another question: How and why have the Cardinals struggled recently to develop pitching, particularly power pitching? Alex Reyes is gone having never reached his potential. Dakota Hudson is in Class AAA looking for his. Hicks is in a mopup spot. And now Andre Pallante is optioned. With highway traffic as both a soundtrack and a metaphor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson joins the Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss the speed bumps behind and the road ahead. 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.
0:14.4	That's 1-800 by design.
0:17.0	There's a team in this town, just a little ways down the road, that spent a lot of its season saying we're a better team than what we've played.
0:25.9	And then all of a sudden the blue season was gone.
0:28.0	You can be a good team that plays poorly for April.
0:32.1	But you start getting too far into May and June, and maybe that's just who you are.
0:47.5	Thank you. into May and June and maybe that's just who you are. Hello everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you by closet
0:50.5	by design of St. Louis.
0:51.4	I'm San Luis Post Dispatch Baseball writer Eric Gould.
0:53.4	Join this week high above the elevated interstate that runs alongside Bush Stadium as we
1:00.8	play a little podcast frogger here between traffic and trains and ballpark noise.
1:08.6	Let's shout at each other a little while. What do you say?
1:13.3	It's Ben Fredrickson of the Post Dispatch joining me.
1:19.8	It's a good metaphor for how Cardinals fans are feeling like they're about to try to run across, you know,
1:23.9	four uninterrupted lanes of traffic going in both directions.
1:28.5	So we try to take the podcast in different places and maybe try to feel,
1:32.9	make you feel like you're right there with the Cardinals as maybe they're on a train track with a train speeding tour. You might hear that in the backgrounds or perhaps a collision on
1:37.5	the highway, hopefully not. But some real-time ambiance here for listeners of the podcast.
1:42.8	It's good to be back with you, man.
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