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The Cardinals' recent road swing through New York and Atlanta revealed a team playing compelling baseball but vulnerable to late-game ruptures in the bullpen that led to a 1-6 record. That prompts the question to launches a brand new episode of the Best Podcast in Baseball: If the Cardinals are focused on development in 2025 and aim to develop winners for beyond 2025, should they have outfited the most volatile area of the roster -- the bullpen -- with more certainty to avoid losses like on the road trip?Â
KMOX/1120 AM's Kevin Wheeler rejoins the podcast to discuss that concept and what role the results of games actually play in the development of young players.Â
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Along with Post-Dispatch baseball writer and BPIB host Derrick Goold, there are some hearty debates about the importance of fundamentals and style of play as a force multiplier not a counterpunch for superstar talent and about how fissures in a bullpen can crack other facets of a baseball team, especially one that already needs a lot to go right to win. Goold and Wheeler arrive at the crux of the Cardinals' season -- how much time is enough for young players to work through their improvements and how much time is too much time to wait for improvements that aren't happening as talent stagnates. It's that last part that the Cardinals don't want to face at the end of 2025.
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Post-Dispatch Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ Cardinals beat writer Derrick Goold talked with KMOX host Kevin Wheeler on the problems the team faces with their bullpen and the impact it has on the team's wins.
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The Cardinals, 1-6 on recent road trip and rocked by relief issues, host their first division series of the season at home, where they're 8-4 despite subdued crowds.
Atlanta rallies for five runs in the eighth to upend Cardinals, send them to fifth consecutive loss, their 10th in 11 road games, which is detouring development.
Cardinals fail to add anything to a one-run, first-inning lead and Ryan Fernandez allows his second decisive homer of the 1-6 road trip in 4-1 loss at Atlanta.
'It should be on the table,' manager says when asked if Matz, winner as starter and reliever, can perform well enough be one of five starters, not the sixth.
