Kolten "Gold Glove" Wong is a free agent. Tony "Men not Machines" La Russa is the manager of the White Sox. The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions. Randy Arozarena is an October star. And Justin Turner doesn't think the pandemic rules apply to him. A lot has happened in the past week, and so the Best Podcast in Baseball turns to someone who talks a lot -- about baseball. Kevin Wheeler, back with KMOX/1120 AM, visits again with BPIB host Derrick Goold, St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer, about everything from the new hole in the Cardinals' lineup and defense to the whether the Rays, with Arozarena in the outfield, are an example of what the Cardinals could have been ... should have been ... would have been? There is a debate about the true value of an elite fielder in the age of shifts, some thoughts on TLR's grand return to the South Side and whether it will be storybook finish for the Hall of Fame manager or a cautionary tale. That's how BPIB enters its (mostly) weekly reports from what could be a frigid offseason in baseball. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold. 

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