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.
Nevertheless, whereas Edmonds could also be strolling away from his broadcasting place, he definitely has loads of ideas on what has been and is happening with the Cardinals, a staff that hasn’t reached the postseason since being swept out of the wild-card spherical in 2022.
“It is not enjoyable any extra,” Edmonds mentioned. “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). Everyone’s nice. However in some way, indoors, within the interior circle … It is simply not the identical group.”
Edmonds known as out a scarcity of clubhouse entry as a part of the issue, insinuating the Cardinals weren’t prepared to take heed to among the recommendation he had gathered as a former participant and broadcaster.
“They make it fairly apparent, even the safety guards, like, ‘Hey, you realize, it may not be a great time,'” Edmonds mentioned. “I am like, ‘Superb 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’ll take my skills out right here to Tennessee and learn to be a gardener and farmer.”
Edmonds mentioned 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 completely different ambiance and it sort 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 could be as a result of Marmol and Mike Shildt, the final two Cardinals managers, weren’t former gamers. Edmonds, nonetheless, dismissed that thought.
“I like Oli, and Mike was wonderful,” Edmonds mentioned. “It is simply the ambiance. You may simply really feel the strain if you stroll round.
“It is simply bizarre. It is only a completely different ambiance now. We’re undoubtedly conscious of it as a gaggle that we’re probably not 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 report and in the midst of the Nationwide League Central in 2025. If that holds, it could imply the Cardinals would miss the postseason for the third straight yr, so Edmonds was requested if the current play by the Cardinals has added to the chasm between the previous and the current.
“I’d suppose that may make it the alternative, would not you? Would not you suppose that there can be different guys that might perhaps assist? Possibly sure eyeballs aren’t seeing sure issues,” Edmonds mentioned. “Or are you so ingrained in what you are doing that you do not you suppose you want any assist?”
