Cardinals TV's Dani Wexelman relishes baseball stories she's ready to tell in her new role

About this episode

Dani Wexelman discusses her journey in baseball broadcasting and her new role with Cardinals.TV.

WASHINGTON -- In a recent social media post, baseball broadcaster and reporter Dani Wexelman shared a photo of her interviewing Matthew Liberatore when he was a high schooler and juxtaposed it with a photo of her interviewing him this year as the Cardinals' opening day starter. That is a great illustration of the arc of Wexelman's career telling baseball stories, from the backfields of Jupiter, Florida, covering amateur baseball and rising talents to front and center now with Cardinals.TV to capture what the club hopes is a rising team. Wexelman joins Best Podcast in Baseball host Derrick Goold while both of them are in Washington, D.C., covering the Cardinals to discuss the start to the 2026 season as well as the path that brought Wexelman to Mizzou and the back this year as a prominent part of the Cardinals' broadcasts. They also discuss how Wexelman's experience covering amateur baseball for many years and being a national pundit looking at Major League Baseball through a broader lens informs what she plans to bring to telling stories during these Cardinals' "new era."  More Post-Dispatch podcasts .  Please consider subscribing . In its 14th season as one of the…

People in this episode

Host: Derrick Goold

Guest: Dani Wexelman

Topics covered

• baseball stories
• broadcasting
• Cardinals
• career path
• amateur baseball
• Major League Baseball

Keywords

• Dani Wexelman
• Cardinals
• broadcasting
• baseball stories
• Matthew Liberatore
• 2026 season
• amateur baseball
• Mizzou

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cardinals.TV, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Books & works: Best Podcast in Baseball

Places: Washington, D.C., Jupiter, Florida

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