Will Gen-Z-led endgame of Cardinals' 'reset' require a reckoning for MLB's spending gap?

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Fresh off the ice after covering the St. Louis Blues for a few days, St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Jeff Gordon is greeted with this question to begin his weekly appearance on the Best Podcast in Baseball: Which was chillier -- the Blues game, the frigid temperatures in St. Louis, or the reception the Cardinals got at their annual Winter Warm-Up? While the Los Angeles Dodgers continued to collect a galaxy of stars, the Cardinals delivered their clearest messages yet about the direction they're headed for 2024. They're reducing payroll and prioritizing player development so that they can reconstruct a contender in this rapidly changing baseball economy. BPIB host and baseball writer Derrick Goold asked Cardinals ownership if the endgame of their "reset" -- their word for it -- will require a salary cap introduced to Major League Baseball as it has been in other professional sports leagues. The short answer from ownership was no. The long answer is that there are many ways to curtail spending and penalize overspending than a salary cap or a salary floor. Drawing on Gordon's background in CBA negotiations, the two writers explore what mechanisms those could be, and in the meantime how the Cardinals will turn to Gen-Z -- relying on a group of twentysomethings to return thme to October because in today's game the thirtysomethings are finding riches in the major markets.

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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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0:17.0	In this brand new episode of the best podcast in baseball,
0:19.4	St. Louis Post Dispatch Sports College, Jeff Gordon swings by for his weekly conversation and well, we just about solve
0:25.3	everything.
0:26.1	We talk about whether or not the road to contention for the Cardinals is through Gen Z because
0:31.1	it's going to be the 20-somethings that lead them to October while all the 30-somethings are off
0:37.1	signing with bigger markets plus
0:39.0	we explore whether or not the payroll disparity as just mentioned is something
0:44.1	that can be curtailed not with a salary cap and not exactly with a salary floor
0:50.4	but with some of the things that happened in CBA negotiations and areas where the CBA
0:56.4	could be changed to create a floor without calling it a floor and a cap that just absolutely
1:03.9	erases draft picks. Here we go. Cue the music.
1:17.5	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis.
1:18.5	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined again for his weekly segment
1:24.5	here with the best podcast in baseball by STLl today.com and post-dispatch
1:28.8	columnist long time voice here in st louis when it comes to sports jeff gordon and that makes
1:34.9	him the perfect guy to ask this question jeff wintry blustery arctic temperatures have gripped
1:42.0	the st louis area like it has much of the country.
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