We use the All Star break to look back at the first half, look ahead to the second half, preview the coming trade season and answer your questions.

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St. Louis split its two-game series with the Cubs in London, and while the setting was novel the product on the field and the results were not. We talk briefly about those games, then dive into mailbag questions about the team’s problems, trade prospects, young players and more.

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The Cardinals and the Cubs are set to renew the greatest rivalry in the National League across the pond, so we thought we’d take this time to do a deep dive look at both franchises. Are the Cardinals going down? Are the Cubs coming up? And what about the billionaire owners of each franchise?

Then we wrap things up with an off-day recommendation if you happen to be spending the off day in London.

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We dip heavily into the mailbag for this episode, answering questions about underperforming players, rebuilding, prospects and whether or not we regret starting this podcast in the first place.

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The Cardinals sport a +1 run differential, and yet still sit at the bottom of the National League in wins. We breakdown the players who have over and underperformed their projections, talk about the change in their run prevention model that could be the biggest cause of their woes, then consider it could look like if the Cardinals do in fact sell at the trade deadline. Finally, we answer your questions.

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Perhaps to help us all recover from the series finales of Succession and Barry, the league scheduled a very rare double midweek off day for the Cardinals. Coming as it does after a 19-day stretch of games, we’ve got plenty to talk about.

We talk about the elevation of Matthew Liberatore and the relegation of Steven Matz. Then we talk about the improved results over this 19-game stretch and what - if anything - was different on the field. Finally, we dig through a full mailbag and answer your questions.

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Every now and then, Ben and I feel like not enough has happened between off days to really be worth talking about. Since the lat time we joined you, however, the Cardinals have announced the free agent catcher they signed for $85 million to replace franchise icon Yadier Molina was no longer going to be a catcher, became the laughing stock of baseball, and almost immediately began to walk that whole plan back.

We dissect the whole Willson Contreras Affair, including the underlying refusal to pay for strikeout pitchers that is again at the core of the problem. Then we remember Mike Shannon with the help of listeners.

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It was a rough first month at the major league level, so what better time to shift our focus to the minor leagues? We’re joined by our good friend, the great Kyle Reis of Prospects After Dark, Birds on the Black, and your favorite provider of minor league GIFs.

We talk Cardinals pitching development, the Jordan Walker development, what Kyle would do if he were GM and more.

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We all know it’s early, but three weeks into the season, the Cardinals still sit near the bottom of the division. Is this team something worse than what we thought they were?

We also talk about Jordan Hicks and how the kind of underlying skills measured by Baseball Savant forecast the moves the Cardinals will make in the rotation and outfield. Plus, we answer listener questions about Jordan Walker’s development, favorite obscure Cardinals players and more.

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On this week’s episode, we talk about the uncomfortable feud between Oliver Marmot and Tyler O’Neill and how it fits into a pattern of behavior from the Cardinals Manager. We also talk about the very bad starting rotation and why this could be just a blip or something much worse. Finally, we open the mailbag for questions about trading outfielders, our favorite Cardinals books and more.

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