The only Cardinals podcast dumber than running on Yadi.
Nate Heininger and Ben Simorka break down the St. Louis Cardinals every week: the roster, the prospects, the trades, the front office, and whatever else comes up along the way.
The 2026 autopsy rolls on. Nate and Ben grade Chaim Bloom's first full year running the Cardinals, re-grade every trade from the Sonny Gray deal to the Dustin May deadline flip, and celebrate a farm system that is suddenly loaded, led by Rainiel Rodriguez, Liam Doyle, and Jesús Báez.
Plus: the kid who broke youth soccer, humanity's post-building future, a Brewers–Rays World Series preview, and Nate struggles with who the closer was in the return of What Year Is It?
The autopsy continues, this time sorting the 2026 Cardinals into who got lucky and who got robbed. JJ Wetherholt was the unluckiest man on the roster and…
The autopsy continues. Nate and Ben go player by player through the 2026 Cardinals, and the central mystery is brutal: the offense dropped 62% in value…
The season's over, so Nate and Ben grab the scalpel and perform the 2026 autopsy. They walk the final rankings — a middle-of-the-pack offense, a rotation…
The Cardinals are officially eliminated, so Nate and Ben start making peace with a season that — against every expectation — still counts as a success…
Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina went into the Cardinals Hall of Fame together, and Nate and Ben get appropriately misty about a pairing we'll probably…
Umpire Doug Eddings picked the wrong night to make it about himself. Nate and Ben break down his meltdown against a rookie, Oli Marmol's now-legendary…
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