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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

After a week's hiatus to go, um, 'on assignment,' the Best Podcast in Baseball returns with a brand new episode featuring host Derrick Goold, baseball writer at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and guest Benjamin Hochman, sports columnist at The Post-Dispatch

After a week's hiatus to go, um, 'on assignment,' the Best Podcast in Baseball returns with a brand new episode featuring host Derrick Goold, baseball writer at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and guest Benjamin Hochman, sports columnist at The Post-Dispatch. The Cardinals have reached induction weekend for the team's Hall of Fame as a first-place team. The offense has shown sparks of consistency. And that's where we begin this week's conversation -- what to do with the lineup, where to hit Kolten Wong (when healthy), and how Matt Carpenter can get his groove back. Hochman also debuted a new line to describe the production from the Cardinals' hitters so far this season. We also discuss media relations and Hochman's new book, "If These Walls Could Talk: Colorado Rockies." The Best Podcast in Baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of StlToday.com, The Post-Dispatch, and Derrick Goold.

Not that two sportswriters would know anything about missing a deadline, so St. Louis Post-dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson and baseball writer Derrick Goold do their best to make sense of the Cardinals' inactivity for a fourth consecutive trade deadline. When the clock struck 3 p.m. St. Louis time and all of the trades had to be finalized -- including a whopper that sent Zack Greinke to Houston -- the Cardinals found themselves without the starter they chased. They had a hold on first place, but did little to strength it but add to their lefty depth with a waiver claim and ship Jedd Gyorko to the Los Angeles Dodgers. At the ballpark, later that evening, a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball -- an extended version, if you will -- aims to understand how the Cardinals got into this predicament where potential carries so much more weight than production, where algorithms have them frozen and their minor-league system is no longer deep enough to make deals. Is this the day that determines whether they are a playoff team -- or barred from October for the fourth consecutive season? This seems to be a pivot point in the season, and BPIB is there to map the direction the Cardinals go from here. The Best Podcast in Baseball, brought you by Closets by Design! of St. Louis, is a production of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, stltoday.com, and Derrick Goold.

Not that two sportswriters would know anything about missing a deadline, so St. Louis Post-dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson and baseball writer Derrick Goold do their best to make sense of the Cardinals' inactivity for a fourth consecutive trade

After a career that included five years with the Cardinals, a 2006 World Series championship, and stints as both a starter and reliever, Brad Thompson dropped his sinker and picked up a microphone. It also made him available for the Best Podcast in Baseba

After a career that included five years with the Cardinals, a 2006 World Series championship, and stints as both a starter and reliever, Brad Thompson dropped his sinker and picked up a microphone. It also made him available for the Best Podcast in Baseball. From a perch atop PNC Park, Thompson joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer to talk about his career, the pitch that made him, the pitch that escaped him, and his role as a ubiquitous broadcaster in St. Louis. Thompson is part of The Fast Lane at 101.1 FM/WXOS, is featured on the Cardinals broadcasts for Fox Sports Midwest, and is the co-host with FredBird of the Cardinals' Kids TV program. He talks about his move from the field to the broadcast booth, and in the broadcast booth tells some tall tales and explores what the Cardinals should do at the trade deadline. The Best Podcast in Baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design! of St. Louis, is a production of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

With the All-Star break behind us, does the National League now begin the long, 2 1/2-month coronation of the Los Angeles Dodgers as the pennant-winner, again? That's the question that launches a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design of St. Louis. Mike Ferrin, host of Power Alley on MLB Network Radio and part of the Arizona Diamondbacks radio broadcast team, joins the podcast to discuss the Dodgers, the D-Backs, the Cardinals and the NL race, right up to the trade deadline. What can teams chasing the Dodgers do to narrow the gap -- or give them a better chance in October against the inevitable? Also, Ferrin drops some hip baseball lingo on BPIB host Derrick Goold. The Best Podcast in Baseball is a production of StlToday.com, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and baseball writer Derrick Goold.

With the All-Star break behind us, does the National League now begin the long, 2 1/2-month coronation of the Los Angeles Dodgers as the pennant-winner, again? That's the question that launches a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball, brought to you by Close

No longer sitting on 7.14, the Best Podcast in Baseball join's A's-Plus Podcast for an interleague crossover episode featuring Susan Slusser, the San Francisco Chronicle's A's beat writer and California Sportswriter of the Year. BPIB host Derrick Goold, a baseball writer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Slusser discuss the deep differences between the usual baseball trade and the trade between the Cardinals and Athletics that sent Stephen Piscotty home to the Bay Area. The two former presidents of the BBWAA also talk about the similarities between the 2019 A's and the 2019 Cardinals, whether the A's can assert themselves as Oakland's hometown team as the NFL and NBA leave town, and the legacy of Moneyball, including the Luhnow that it unleashed on the American League West. The Best Podcast in Baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.