Spring showcases Cardinals' future. But what about the present?

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jordan Walker and Masyn Winn have been standouts of the Cardinals' spring training, and there have been other young players who have impressed. But if spring training has been a showcase for the future of the Cardinals, what about the present and the pressure to compete for a World Series championship now? Tom Ackerman, sports director at KMOX/1120 AM, joins the Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss what he's seen so far in spring training from the young players and what that means for the window to contend with a powerful nucleus of Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt. Is this collection of standout players in jeopardy of falling short what other strong cores have accomplished in St. Louis? The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.com, 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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0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
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0:16.9	To add to the window that you just said, which is slowly closing, you've got a great middle order and two elite players playing on your team in Gulchman-Aronado.
0:29.1	It's time to be able to go out and say that they competed for a world championship.
0:35.6	It'd be a shame to go through the Gulchmidt-Arenato era of the Cardinals and to say that they competed for a world championship. It'd be a shame to go through the Goldsmith-Arenato era of the Cardinals
0:40.0	and to say that they didn't get the job done.
0:49.9	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball,
0:52.3	brought to you by Clause of by Design of St. Louis.
0:54.0	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould.
0:56.4	Join this week by KMOX, 1120 a.m's own sports director, Tom Ackerman.
1:02.8	Tom, you're preparing to call a game play-by-play.
1:07.3	Tell me how you prep for a Cardinal Spring training game besides memorizing everybody's
1:12.6	numbers zero through 99. Right. And pronunciation. We have to memorize all those things. No, we have
1:19.5	a lot of material in front of us, which is great. I think it's ongoing preparation. I'm actually
1:25.1	glad the way that it worked out is that I've been down here for a week
1:28.2	before I did my first game, because I think to call a game, technically you want to be able to
1:33.8	call every pitch and at bat and everything that happens, but you also want to be able to weave in
1:38.4	some information and stories and observations. So I've been able to watch things for about a week
1:43.0	down here, which really does help. So I think that all factors into prep. The Cardinals and the Astros is the
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