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Core question: Have Cardinals identified Chaim Bloom's starting foundation or is an overhaul ahead?
Season 13 · Episode 25

Core question: Have Cardinals identified Chaim Bloom's starting foundation or is an overhaul ahead?

In part 2 of an extended conversation, Derrick Goold and Kevin Wheeler discuss ways deadline could shove Cardinals out of the middle ground

Best Podcast in Baseball · Lee Enterprises

July 26, 202535m 31s

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<p>Post-Dispatch podcasts page:&nbsp;<a href="https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43</a></p> <p>Please consider subscribing:&nbsp;<a href="https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5">https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5</a></p> <p>As the Cardinals approach the onrushing July 31 trade deadline, what if the moves made (or not made) are just prelude to a larger overhaul of the organization in the opening months of Chaim Bloom's tenure leading baseball operations.</p> <p>A simple, direct, but essential question about whether the Cardinals four months into their "runway" season have identified the core of their next contending team prompts a lengthy discussion about what's still missing, what hasn't emerged, and what players have made their best case to be part of the foundation upon which Bloom is expected to build a contending team?&nbsp;</p> <p>That is where the conversation between St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold and KMOX/104.1 FM host Kevin Wheeler&nbsp; continues, and where it goes touches on future talents, the need for stars, and even the environment at the ballpark.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>In its 13th season as one of the first and most popular Cardinals-related podcasts, the Best Podcast in Baseball in sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis. BPIB is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.</em></p>