What sights of spring will reveal the Cardinals commitment to focus on the future?

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

JUPITER, Fla. -- Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado created buzz within the Yankees' social media greenhouse for driving to visit a couple of close friends and, oh, playing six or so innings in an exhibition baseball game.

That is where the discussion begins in a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball featuring host and baseball writer Derrick Goold along with Post-Dispatch sports columnist Jeff Gordon.

The downstream impact of Arenado remaining in Cardinals camp and starting at third base for the Cardinals is a major factor in their spring training, but it doesn't disrupt the priority playing time as much as it might seem. Nolan Gorman will still be able to receive ample at-bats, just at a new position. Brendan Donovan won't be budged from the lineup, just to the outfield. And so on, all the way to center field,.

That is where this podcast goes.

Looking at center field, the big-league bench, the rotation, and the bullpen, Gordon and Goold explore the decisions the Cardinals must make with young players that will reveal how committed they are to the future -- and how the now still shapes their choices. The players discussed include Michael McGreevy, Zack Thompson, Matthew Liberatore, Michael Siani, Thomas Saggese, and center fielder Victor Scott II, who is off to a blazing start to spring training.

Gordon joins the podcast from St. Louis, while Goold is in Jupiter covering spring training for the Post-Dispatch's constant Cardinals coverage.

The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is in its 13th season. It 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.
0:17.1	On this brand new edition of the Best Podcast in Baseball, I'm joined all the way from St. Louis by my colleague and instant offense, Jeff Gordon.
0:26.9	We're going to talk about Nolan Aronado's trip to Tampa and then his trip around the bases the next day.
0:32.3	And we're also going to dive deep into what are the signals of spring that tell us the direction the Cardinals are
0:39.5	headed. Very thrilled to be talking with Jeff Gordon this week on the best podcast in baseball.
0:45.0	Jeff, would you like to say cue the music? Cue the music. The best fans in baseball deserve the best podcast in baseball. It's BPIB. Here's your host, Derek Gould.
1:07.5	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis. I'm St. Louis Post Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould. Join this week by my
1:14.8	colleague and friend, our columnist there at the St. Louis Post Dispatch and S.Cld88.com, and of course,
1:21.3	up there in St. Louis, while I'm in Jupiter, it is, of course, Jeff Gordon. Gordo, how are you? Long time, no C. How you been? Well, in last couple
1:28.7	days, it's been not quite Florida, but it's been nice. So I was, give me about a week ago,
1:33.8	I would have been a little sour, but it's been going well. Yeah, I thought that was a courtesy of me
1:38.4	to keep the podcast in Florida and not have to give you a weather report for what we're going on.
1:45.5	Look, things are heating up for the Cardinals.
1:50.2	They've started games.
1:51.8	They've played a few.
1:52.9	They went to the West Coast there to the Tampa area.
1:56.3	I got to go see Dunedin, Gordo, for the first time since the Cardinals called St. Pete home.
2:02.4	That was, what a charming place, man.
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