Bernie Central

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Bernie Central episodes

August 07 Nolan Gorman Changed Something in Memphis, and Almost Nobody Noticed
Nolan Gorman went to Memphis in June as a hitter with a scrambled swing and a 49 percent strikeout rate, and most Cardinals fans mentally closed the book on him. Over his last 14 games, something in the data quietly flipped, and Bernie Miklasz thinks St. Louis has roughly zero good reasons to ignore it.

Bernie walks through what actually happened inside the Memphis hitting lab, why the early results looked worse than they were, and what the last two weeks of batted ball data suggest about whether the rebuild of Gorman's swing is taking hold. He also makes the uncomfortable comparison to the current Cardinals offense, which ranks at the bottom of the National League in home runs and slugging over its last 50 games.

This is not a prediction that Gorman gets called up. It is an argument about what a rebuilding team has to lose by finding out.

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26 min
August 06 The Cautionary Tale Every Cardinals Fan Needs To Hear Right Now
Chaim Bloom has stocked the Cardinals farm system with more high end talent than Bernie Miklasz has seen in his 37 years covering this team. So why does he keep thinking about a franchise that did the exact same thing and ended up with nothing?

In this episode of The Bernie Show, Bernie breaks down the Cardinals rebuild through the lens of the Baltimore Orioles, a team that tanked, drafted brilliantly, built what analysts called maybe the best farm system in major league history, and then failed to win a single postseason game before trading its franchise catcher to a division rival.

Bernie explains what went wrong in Baltimore, why he still believes in what Bloom is building in St. Louis, and the questions that will actually decide whether this becomes the next great Cardinals team.

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27 min
August 04 What Chaim Bloom Got for Dustin May Should Not Have Been Possible...
Chaim Bloom just turned two rental pitchers and one veteran outfielder into a prospect haul that national evaluators are still reacting to. Bernie Miklasz has covered the St. Louis Cardinals since the 1980s, and he says he has never seen the farm system stocked like this.
In this episode of The Bernie Show, Bernie breaks down every move the Cardinals made at the 2026 MLB trade deadline, why the return from Milwaukee exceeded even optimistic expectations, and what the incoming talent says about where this rebuild is heading. He also has thoughts on the one national writer who did not like it.
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26 min
August 04 Bernie on His Future with STL Sports Central
Bernie Miklasz talks on the future of his show with STL Sports Central. After the news that came out last week, he shares his thoughts and what he will be doing with his writing and videos going forward.
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12 min
July 30 Trading Ivan Herrera Would Be a MISTAKE
Contending teams keep calling the Cardinals about Iván Herrera, and the reason has less to do with his bat than you think. Bernie Miklasz digs into a leaguewide shift that has quietly turned right-handed hitters into the most scarce commodity at the 2026 trade deadline, and explains why it changes the entire Herrera conversation.
Bernie breaks down both sides honestly: the defensive limitations that leave Herrera without a true position, the strange split that makes him a far better hitter when he catches, the swing path problem holding back his power, and the recent Driveline work that may have him turning a corner. Then he lays out the numbers on baseball's historic left-handed hitter surge and what it means for a Cardinals lineup that already ranks near the bottom of the league in right-handed production.
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24 min
July 29 The REAL Reason This Offense Is Broken, And It Isn't Busch Stadium
he Cardinals just got outscored 17 to 5 in two nights by the Cubs, and everyone wants to blame the ballpark. Bernie Miklasz says the ballpark is the smallest part of this, and the actual problem is one nobody in the organization seems willing to name.
Bernie breaks down why St. Louis has become one of the worst home teams in baseball, why moving the fences at Busch Stadium would backfire, and what the Milwaukee Brewers have been proving in this division since 2018. It starts with a 27-31 home record and ends with a question the Cardinals still cannot answer: what do they actually stand for on offense?
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25 min
July 28 What the Cardinals Learned, and What They Keep Ignoring...
The Cardinals have spent all season telling us 2026 is a year of discovery with the youngest roster in the majors. Bernie Miklasz went through that roster name by name and came away with a long list of things this team has genuinely learned, plus a handful it seems determined not to act on.
At 53 and 53 with the trade deadline days away, this is the honest midseason accounting: who has earned a spot in the 2027 plans, who has not, and where the organization is still getting in its own way.
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25 min
July 27 Bloom Has ONE Week Left, Bernie Explains What He Should Actually Do…
Chaim Bloom has one week to decide what the Cardinals are, and Bernie Miklasz says almost every name on the roster should be in play. Almost. There are exactly two players he would not put on the table, and the rest of the list may surprise you.
Bernie breaks down the National League's third wild card race, a six team pileup where nobody seems to want the spot, and explains why St. Louis is somehow still within striking distance despite going 3-7 since the All-Star break. He then lays out the deadline blueprint he would follow: cheap bullpen help, controllable bats, and the discipline to walk away from short term fixes. Plus the bigger picture argument that 2026 is already a win for this organization, no matter what happens in the standings.
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25 min
July 25 Bernie Says Only TWO Cardinals Should Be Untouchable at the Deadline | Randy Karraker Show
The Cardinals were outscored 26 to 5 in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings during their recent slump, and Bernie Miklasz says that number explains more than the bullpen ever could. He also names the only two Cardinals he would refuse to trade before the deadline, and says the front office should be taking calls on everyone else.
Randy Karraker is joined by Bernie Miklasz for the weekly visit at STL Sports Central. Bernie calls this a team in decline and walks through how bad the offense has been, including three runs in 18 innings against the Angels.
Randy notes the Cardinals are 11 and 33 when they score three runs or fewer. They also cover Jesus Baez emerging from the Ryan Helsley trade, concerns about Joshua Baez, and the real story of what happened to Chaim Bloom in Boston.
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55 min
July 24 Bernie: "I Was Wrong About This Cardinals Team"
The St. Louis Cardinals are still within striking distance of a wild card spot, so why is Bernie Miklasz opening this show by admitting he got the 2026 season wrong? Because he bought in during the hot start, the numbers say he shouldn't have, and he's not going to pretend otherwise.
In this episode of The Bernie Show, Bernie owns his mistake and then explains it. He walks through why this Cardinals roster was never built to be good, why the wild card race is telling fans a story the underlying metrics don't support, and why he believes almost everyone is angry at the wrong thing. The turn at the end may surprise you, because this isn't a case against Chaim Bloom, it's a case for him.
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32 min

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