SABRcast with Rob Neyer: Derrick Goold (Episode #30)
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Episode #30: October 21, 2019
Our guest this week is Derrick Goold, the award-winning Cardinals beat writer with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and past president of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Goold has been covering the Cardinals since 2004; he is the co-host of The Best Podcast in Baseball and the author of 100 Things Cardinals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. He is also a regular contributor to Baseball America covering the Cardinals and their minor-league farm system. Before focusing on baseball, Goold covered the St. Louis Blues hockey team with the Post-Dispatch for four seasons, and he covered pro, college, and high school sports at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
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What’s Rob reading this week?
“MLB Proposal Would Eliminate 42 Minor League Teams”
By J.J. Cooper, Baseball America
“The Professional Baseball Agreement (PBA) between Major League Baseball and minor league teams expires at the end of the 2020 season. But if a new MLB proposal were to become reality, more than three dozen cities with affiliated minor league teams will lose those teams a year from now and thousands of minor league players will be out of work as well. The MLB proposal is just one idea at the start of what will likely be a lengthy negotiation, but the two sides are further apart than they have been in any PBA negotiation since 1990.”
- Also reading: Mark Armour: “Whither the Astros?” (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
- Read more: Click here to check out Rob’s full list of book recommendations on Goodreads.com
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