What did Cardinals learn from disastrous '23 that they can already apply to early '24 challenges?

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The 2023 Cardinals, on their way to 91 losses and a last-place finish, diagnosed the rotation, an inconsistent outfield, and a difficult schedule at the start of the season as reasons for the fist last place finish in more than 30 years. Well, deja vu. The Cardinals near the start of the 2024 regular season with injuries in the rotation, uncertainty in the outfield, and a difficult schedule that begins Thursday at Dodger Stadium. So, did lessons learned from 2023 influence changes to the choise of 2023 or are the Cardinals poised to have the same slow start, the same, familiar failings? St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson joins the podcast to discuss what moves the Cardinals can make suggest that they learned from last years. One happened after the recording of this podcast as Sonny Gray, officially, began the season on the 15-day injured list and lefty Zack Thompson took his spot in the rotation. That was not clear at the time of the recording this episode, though what can be excpected of these players was definitely discussed. Frederickson also discusses why the Cardinal believe they are a "tougher" team and how how that might manifest in the decision they make this regular seaosn and the opening series they have at Dodger Stadium. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closet by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold. You can find the Best Podcast in Baseball at StlToday.com or anywhere you get your podcasts, iuncluding iTunes.

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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.
0:14.4	That's 1-800-by-design.
0:17.2	They are going to be a tougher team than they were last year.
0:20.5	We'll see if that's a better team.
0:22.3	But usually tougher teams are better teams, but you've got to be talented too.
0:26.7	Because if not, you'd get a bunch of high school heroes out there.
0:30.2	It's not of the movies.
0:31.9	This team will be tougher.
0:33.6	The Cardinals aren't a tough spot because they don't want to just come out and say they're going to get drilled in April.
0:41.2	I think what they're really thinking, though, is it's going to be a tough month, but we have a tougher team.
0:45.2	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closis by Design
0:48.7	of St. Louis.
0:49.4	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould join this week because you demanded it and it's overdue.
0:57.0	He's been here in Jupiter for several weeks and we haven't once stuck a recorder in front of his face to get his thoughts, which is probably good because there's just this backlog of topics to talk about.
1:10.0	It is, of course, St. Louis Post Dispatch Sports column is Ben Fredrickson.
1:13.4	Where do we even begin?
1:14.8	Where do you want to begin?
1:15.9	Well, it's a good thing you didn't stick a recorder in my face when I first got down here because I had food poisoning.
1:20.4	Oh, right.
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