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Author Evan Drellich on Houston's sign stealing & Cardinals connections

Author Evan Drellich on Houston's sign stealing & Cardinals connections

FromBest Podcast in Baseball


Author Evan Drellich on Houston's sign stealing & Cardinals connections

FromBest Podcast in Baseball

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Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In his new book 'Winning Fixes Everything,' author Evan Drellich details the corporate culture that led to the Houston Astros sign-stealing quagmire and probes how many of the leading executives got their start in baseball with the Cardinals. Drellich joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss new insight into the hacking scandal that will forever bind the Astros and Cardinals, the baseball operations approach that former Cardinals exec Jeff Luhnow created in Houston, and how organizational arrogance may have led to negligence. Drellich, a senior writer at The Athletic who along with Ken Rosenthal broke the story on Houston's trashcan caper during the 2017 season, explores the reporting on that story and the fallout from it, including how baseball clubs are reluctant to talk about their "trade secrets" and why that's bad for the game, bad for storytelling, and yet ignored because without the sign-stealing the Astros' winning would have lacquered over everything. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Feb 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold and other Post-Dispatch sports columnists as they discuss the Cardinals, Major League Baseball, and, as so often happens, anything tangentially related to the national pastime and the city that adores it.