Rebuild Plan Debate, Gorman Searching, Good & Bad with Cards Rotation

About this episode

The episode features a debate on the Cardinals' trade deadline strategy, highlights Nolan Gorman's potential breakout, and discusses the performance of the starting rotation.

Jim Hayes, Kyle Gibson, and Lance Lynn are back and ready to continue where they left off on Monday, hotly debating whether Chaim Bloom should stay the course and stick with the plan to sell at the trade deadline, even if the team is firmly in the playoff picture (2:51). Big Cat shares part of his conversation with Chaim from the week. (15:23) As the Cards get set to head west to face the Padres, we shine a spotlight on Nolan Gorman, who might be getting closer to breaking out offensively.  (21:30) The Cardinals starting rotation has been mostly great of late. One searching for consistency is Andre Pallante. What are the guys seeing with Pallante and the pitching staff as a whole? Things get a little spicy! 🌶️ Cardinal Territory is the official St. Louis Cardinals podcast of the Foul Territory Network. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Jim Hayes, Kyle Gibson, Lance Lynn

Topics covered

• trade deadline debate
• player performance
• Cardinals rotation
• Nolan Gorman
• Andre Pallante
• playoff picture

Keywords

• Chaim Bloom
• Nolan Gorman
• Andre Pallante
• Cardinals rotation
• trade deadline
• playoff picture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Foul Territory Network

Places: San Diego, St. Louis

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