After spending a dozen seasons being concerned with St. Louis Cardinals tv broadcasts in some capability, former Cardinals participant Jim Edmonds will not be again in 2025 in what Edmonds described as a “mutual resolution” as a part of an interview on “The Morning After” on 101ESPN in St. Louis on Monday.
Nonetheless, whereas Edmonds could also be strolling away from his broadcasting place, he definitely has loads of ideas on what has been and is occurring with the Cardinals, a group that hasn’t reached the postseason since being swept out of the wild-card spherical in 2022.
“It is not enjoyable any extra,” Edmonds stated. “They do not make you are feeling such as you’re wished, be across the stadium. I like (supervisor Oliver Marmol), the DeWitts, I’ve a lot respect for, (president of baseball operations John Mozeliak). All people’s nice. However by some means, indoors, within the interior circle … It is simply not the identical group.”
Edmonds referred to as out a scarcity of clubhouse entry as a part of the issue, insinuating the Cardinals weren’t prepared to take heed to a number of the recommendation he had gathered as a former participant and broadcaster.
“They make it fairly apparent, even the safety guards, like, ‘Hey, you recognize, it may not be a very good time,'” Edmonds stated. “I am like, ‘Tremendous with me. I do not must be in there. If you don’t need me to inform your pitchers that they are tipping their pitches … I will take my skills out right here to Tennessee and discover ways to be a gardener and farmer.”
Edmonds stated the Cardinals “do not invite” former gamers to spring coaching to combine with the present gamers, asking the radio hosts, “When was the final time you’ve got seen a Corridor of Famer within the dugout in spring coaching?
“They only do not invite us down there any extra,” he continued. “It is an entire totally different environment and it type of makes you are feeling you are not appreciated, not wished and do not want your assist.”
Edmonds was requested if a part of the disconnect is likely to be as a result of Marmol and Mike Shildt, the final two Cardinals managers, weren’t former gamers. Edmonds, nevertheless, dismissed that thought.
“I like Oli, and Mike was superb,” Edmonds stated. “It is simply the environment. You possibly can simply really feel the strain whenever you stroll round.
“It is simply bizarre. It is only a totally different environment now. We’re undoubtedly conscious of it as a bunch that we’re not likely wished round there any extra.”
Within the PECOTA projections from Baseball Prospectus launched on Monday, the Cardinals had been predicted to complete with a dropping file and in the course of the Nationwide League Central in 2025. If that holds, it might imply the Cardinals would miss the postseason for the third straight 12 months, so Edmonds was requested if the latest play by the Cardinals has added to the chasm between the previous and the current.
“I’d assume that might make it the other, would not you? Would not you assume that there can be different guys that might perhaps assist? Possibly sure eyeballs aren’t seeing sure issues,” Edmonds stated. “Or are you so ingrained in what you are doing that you do not you assume you want any assist?”
