Best Podcast in BaseballBest Podcast in Baseball 7.20: September Seasoning
The BPIB goes BPOC. Big Podcast on Campus. With school back in session, St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Ben Frederickson joins Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss what the Cardinals could learn from last year's September stumble. The Cardinals, the only team to win 20 games in August 2018, frayed toward the end and lost of eight of their 11 games against division foes and five of their final six games to slip from contention to late dismissal, but dismissal nonetheless from another October. Explored in this episode of the Best Podcast in Baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design of St. Louis, are whether the Cardinals can count on experience as an edge in the season's final month, when the pitching reckoning will happen, how Jack Flaherty has asserted himself as a fall pitcher, and what's up with Marcell Ozuna's future? The farm system rankings are also discussed as well as Dylan Carlson's role -- and how to square the team's plan for him with the trumpeting of September experience. (Editor's note: This podcast was recorded before the results of Lane Thomas' CT scan revealed a fracture in his right wrist.) The Best Podcast in Baseball is a production of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.
