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St. Louis Post-Dispatch lead baseball writer Derrick Goold and guests discuss the Cardinals, MLB and anything related to the national pastime and the city that adores it.
Episodes
- Tarps off! BPIB is back on: Have Cardinals found their voice as a contender?
Keep your shirts on, the Best Podcast in Baseball is back. And just in time, too. Good vibes have engulfed the Cardinals after returing from a successful swing through California to an eletrcic weekend at Busch Stadium, thanks to the fortu…
- Should Cardinals' fast start to 2026 accelerate their long-range rebuild plans?
MIAMI -- Fresh off a sweep of the Astros in Houston, the Cardinals visit the Marlins with a tailwind of five consecutive wins and a fast start to their rebuild season. Does their early success suggest they'll outperform expectations in 202…
- Cardinals TV's Dani Wexelman relishes baseball stories she's ready to tell in her new role
WASHINGTON -- In a recent social media post, baseball broadcaster and reporter Dani Wexelman shared a photo of her interviewing Matthew Liberatore when he was a high schooler and juxtaposed it with a photo of her interviewing him this year…
- Happy New Year! BPIB's preview of 2026 Cardinals comes out of left field
What do the roster decisions made by the Cardinals ahead of opening day tell fans about their timetable to contend? Probably more than their letting on. The Best Podcast in Baseball returns from spring training and to its weekly format wit…
- Thomas Saggese flips the script with questions for BPIB and a new position for Cardinals
JUPITER, Fla. -- Thomas Saggese has questions for the host of the Best Podcast in Baseball. Moments after finishing his first ever start in center field for the Cardinals, Saggese joins baseball writer Derrick Goold to talk about the trans…
- BPIB Season No. 14 premieres with Cardinals spring training roundtable
JUPITER, Fla. -- On the even of the Cardinals opening their full-squad workouts for spring training, four reporters covering the camp gather at a table nearby the brand new complex to discuss the bran new questions facing a club in a rebui…
- The big deal: What have Cardinals added with all of this subtraction?
The Cardinals' winter of accumulation climaxed with the trade many months in the making: They moved All-Star utility fielder Brendan Donovan in a three-team trade to Seattle and received a windfall that included two of the Mariners' top-10…
- A melancholy end to what could have been for Cardinals and Nolan Arenado
If you sensed some melancholy from both the Cardinals as they announced trading a Hall of Fame-caliber player to Arizona and also from that player, Nolan Arenado, as he described feeling "in the way" where once he expected to retire, that'…
- Ignition switch: From sparking lineups with 'Leadoff Man' author to thawing a chilly Hot Stove
A discussion the Cardinals and a chilly Hot Stove eventually ignites with this completely unrelated question: How far into your list of the best players in the history of Major League Baseball do you get before mentioning Rickey Henderson?…
- Cardinals counterintuitive holiday shopping list could leave a hole in tradition
There should be ballads written about Willson Contreras' brief time with the Cardinals. From his arrival as the All-Star eager for the challenge of following Yadier Molina, to that weird week when he took fly balls in left field and stoppe…
- Searching for Cardinals' next core with Cespedes Family BBQ's Jordan Shusterman
More Post-Dispatch podcasts . Please consider subscribing . As the Cardinals have retreated from annual October appearances they have also faded from the national spotlight. They haven't been historically bad. They haven't been as go…
- After stoking hot stove at Winter Meetings, what do Cardinals have cooking?
More Post-Dispatch podcasts . Please consider subscribing . Back from Orlando, Florida, and the annual Winter Meetings and into the chill of St. Louis, Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold shares with editor Nathan Mills what…
- Do Cardinals need MLB's economics to shift before they can contend again?
More Post-Dispatch podcasts . Please consider subscribing . There is no bumper sticker, no buzzy campaign slogan that captures the challenge facing Major League Baseball and its 30 clubs as economic disparity grows and the expiration…
- Cardinals' forecast calls for a bustling Winter Meetings
More Post-Dispatch podcasts . Please consider subscribing . From the start of the offseason and the beginning for a new front officer leader, the Cardinals have signaled their priority this winter is to accumulate talent that will he…
- Fallout from Sonny Gray trade: Can Cardinals' long-term vision coexist with fan urgency?
More Post-Dispatch podcasts . Please consider subscribing . Two years after the Cardinals signed Sonny Gray as a free agent to headline their pitching, pitching, pitching offseason, the veteran right-handed waived his no-trade…
- A Midwest Quest: Searching for NL Central's next champion in MLB's tilting geography
More Post-Dispatch podcasts . Please consider subscribing . Welcome to the great plains. When next Major League Baseball hosts a World Series it will have been a decade since any of thw 10 teams from the Midwest divisions have…
- Previewing next top prospects for Cardinals by reviewing annual Post-Dispatch 12 rankings
More Post-Dispatch podcasts . Please consider subscribing . Before plunging into the Hot Stove season and the arrival of the GM Meetings, a look at the performances this past season by the top 12 prospects in the Cardinals syst…
- 31st on 31st: What tricks or treats await Cardinals as opening of free agent market looms?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 When the World Series ends, the roster work begins, and the Cardinals have new staff and new leadership in place -- so…
- BPIB World Series preview: Can Toronto slow Dodgers' dominance as they fortify an NL dynasty?
More Post-Dispatch podcasts: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 As Toronto prepares to host Game 1 of the 121st Fall Classic, Vanderbilt graduate Tyler Kepner joins Mizzou grad…
- Best Podcast in Baseball returns to ask: Does closure help spur Cardinals' new beginning?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 It's been a minute since a brand-new Best Podcast in Baseball and there's a lot to catch up on. For the first time in 1…
- The sea shanty of perpetual rebuild: How Cardinals can avoid echoing Pirates
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 Throngs of Cardinals fans got accustomed to seeing successful baseball. The Cardinals got accumstomed to seeing throngs…
- Can a former Ray pierce the Cardinals' clouded forecast?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 During a lengthy rain delay before the finale of the Cardinals' visit to Tampa Bay, St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball wr…
- 7 things to watch during Cardinals' long home stand: No. 1 Yadier Molina's cameo at coach
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 The Cardinals' begin their final three-series home stand of the season with a reunion. Yadier Molina returns to St. Lou…
- Core question: Have Cardinals identified Chaim Bloom's starting foundation or is an overhaul ahead?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 As the Cardinals approach the onrushing July 31 trade deadline, what if the moves made (or not made) are ju…
- Forget the standings. Can future-focused Cardinals let offers shove them off the fence at trade deadline?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 As Major League Baseball's July 31 trade deadline rapidly approaches, so does another opportunity for the Cardinals to…
- Buy? Sell? Both! Neither?! Forecasting the Cardinals' trade winds as deadline nears
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 With Major League Baseball's July 31 trade deadline rapidly approaching, the Cardinals are still considering what direc…
- Lottery ticket: Can Cardinals score a transformative talent with No. 5 pick in MLB Draft?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 It has been more than a generation since the Cardinals picked in the top five for the MLB Draft, and in a week the Card…
- Can Cubs-Cardinals rivalry still spark fireworks in time for Fourth of July series?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 After his barehanded play on a slow-rolling grounder ended Tuesday night's game against the Cubs with a stirring, 8-7 C…
- Cardinals biggest showdown isn't vs. Cubs, it's with themselves: Annual Flag Day episode
Post-Dispatch podcasts page : https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing : https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 CHICAGO -- Two showdowns loom for the Cardinals in the coming weeks. First, they face the division-leading Chic…
- Broadcaster Polo Ascensio joins BPIB to (enthusiastically!) call it like he sees it on Cardinals' style of play and more
Post-Dispatch podcasts page : https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing : https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 From near his perch at Busch Stadium, where he calls games for the Cardinals' Spanish language broadcast, Polo Ascens…
- Can Cardinals find their sweet spot as a contender between KC's cycle and LA's spending?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 The first extended home stand of season brings two sides of the contending spectrum to Busch Stadium, with the Kansas C…
- Cardinals must develop the middle-order mashers of their future. But there's a catch.
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 A big, defining topic for the Cardinals' future and their development of a big, defining hitter needs a jumbo-sized Bes…
- Why baseball managers matter in modern game (even more?) with author of new book, 'Skipper'
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 In the wake of three managerial firings before Memorial Day, author and longtime baseball writer Scott Miller joins the…
- BPIB Replay: The episode with Cardinals vet Matt Carpenter discussing dramatic shifts during his All-Star career
Near the visitors' dugout at Coors Field in September 2024, Cardinals veteran Matt Carpenter found a relatively quiet spot to discuss his career, his future plans, and the dramatic shifts he's seen in the game since his arrival in 2…
- Vibe check: Soaring Cardinals completely remix 'reset' expectations for 2025
Post-Dispatch podcasts page : https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing : https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 “Change the atmosphere at the ballpark and start to mirror the scrappiness and the feistiness and that vibe tha…
- Are streaking Cardinals ready for their (national) closeup?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page : https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing : https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 "The discussion around the Cardinals will be similar to one you and I are having right now," says Rich Waltz, broadca…
- Peering through the opening (and closing) windows to win in NL Central
Post-Dispatch podcasts page : https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing : https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 If we can all agree that teams in the National League Central cycle in and then out of a window contention, then let'…
- Cardinals caught in a winning/development paradox
Post-Dispatch podcasts page : https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing : https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 The Cardinals' recent road swing through New York and Atlanta revealed a team playing compelling baseball but vulnera…
- Cardinals put together a feisty, energized lineup in April. Will club keep it together by August?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 Welcome to a brand-new Best Podcast in Baseball. St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer and host Derrick Goold is join…
- Part of MLB's history in Japan, how do Cardinals become relevant there now to appeal to players, fans?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 There is a decades-old comic book from Japan that freelance journalist and baseball writer Brad Lefton carries with him…
- Cardinals' strong first impression shows how to grow a team. Can they regrow the crowds?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 It would be difficult for the Cardinals to script a better opening weekend for their "transition" year that an em…
- Recorded while rain delays opening day: Can how '25 Cardinals open delay the rebuild?
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 When the rain clears on opening day, the Cyldesdales, red jackets, and 2025 Cardinals will take center stage in St. Lou…
- Prospect performances force Cardinals to decide between playing in Memphis, sitting in St. Louis
Post-Dispatch podcasts page Please consider subscribing 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 Mi…
- Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray's idea: ditch geography, reimagine MLB divisions by economy
Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 JUPITER, Fla. -- Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray lobbed a compelling question into the conversation he an…
- 3 up, 3 down at Cardinals spring training and 1 lineup dilemma yet to come around
JUPITER, Fla. -- With three weeks of spring training remaining before opening day at Busch Stadium and three weeks to make decisions on the bullpen, three weeks to explore any last-minute trades, three weeks to stir the offense, and three…
- What sights of spring will reveal the Cardinals commitment to focus on the future?
Find more podcasts from the Post-Dispatch . Subscribe to the Post-Dispatch . 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…
- What will 1985 NL champ Ricky Horton be watching for as 're-something' Cardinals begin games
JUPITER, Fla. -- There is a sense around the Cardinals that one of the reasons for reducing expectations, seesawing between the words "reset" and "transition" but never once using the world "rebuild," is that the club is trying to create a…
- Best Podcast in Baseball's 13th season premiere: Answering 10 questions facing Cardinals
JUPITER, Fla. -- The 13th season of the Best Podcast in Baseball begins as it traditionally does with a gathering of the Post-Dispatch writers covering the Cardinals spring training and an answering of the 10 questions facing the club as i…
- First impressions: Cardinals top prospect JJ Wetherholt readies for debut at major-league spring training
On the eve of his first major-league spring training with the St. Louis Cardinals, top prospect JJ Wetherholt joins the Best Podcast in Baseball for a discussion about his preparation, his health, his strides as a pro, his goals at shortst…
- Does MLB need a winter deadline for free agents to jolt owners, spark simmering Hot Stove?
The Hot Stove needs a spark, and the Best Podcast in Baseball has flint ready to strike steel. The forecast calls for a flurry of moves in Major League Baseball before next month's arrival of spring training, and big reason for that isn't…