While typing the introduction to a brand new episode of Best Podcast in Baseball, I'm sitting in the press box at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida, having just watched rookie Michael McGreevy carve through the Mets lineup, pitch around two errors, and finish his impressive spring trianing with five scoreless innings.
Meanwhile, down in Jupiter, Florida, Victor Scott II has homered. Again.
McGreevy and Scott personify the decision the Cardinals are going to have to make weighing whether it is better for their future to have a deserving player sitting in ºüÀêÊÓƵ or playing in Memphis. That's the crux of quesitons facing the Cardinals as they crystallize their roster before leaving Florida for the start of the regular season and opening day Thursday against Minnesota at Busch Stadium.Â
The final Best Podcast in Baseball from Florida centers on that choice -- sitting in the majors, playing in the minors -- and what is best for the players, what is best for the team, and what is a true reflection of the promised "transition" and youth movement?
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Post-Dispatch sports writers Derrick Goold and Jeff Gordon explore the final Cardinals' roster choices and much more much in the sixth episode of the 13th season of the Best Podcast in Baseball.
Gordon also provides a forecast for the reception the Cardinals will receive upon returning to ºüÀêÊÓƵ.
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Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold discusses which Cardinals flourished in spring training and which players struggled.
Instead of demolishing buildings, the Cardinals are expanding and reconfiguring their existing one with new ones sprouting, with costs set to climb.
The Cardinals history that's front of mind during other years or weighing on the shoulders of other seasons is now in the hands of the players in the locker room.
A lengthy interview before his exit, Cardinals president of baseball operations discusses his tenure, the perpetual search for an edge and "poetry" of the game.
