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 actually has loads of ideas on what has been and is happening with the Cardinals, a crew that hasn’t reached the postseason since being swept out of the wild-card spherical in 2022.
“It isn’t enjoyable any extra,” Edmonds mentioned. “They do not make you’re feeling such as you’re needed, 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 someway, indoors, within the inside 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 hearken 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 understand, it may not be 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 will 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 a complete completely different ambiance and it form of makes you’re feeling you are not appreciated, not needed and do not want your assist.”
Edmonds was requested if a part of the disconnect is perhaps 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 mentioned. “It is simply the ambiance. You possibly can simply really feel the strain while you stroll round.
“It is simply bizarre. It is only a completely different ambiance now. We’re undoubtedly conscious of it as a bunch that we’re not likely needed round there any extra.”
Within the PECOTA projections from Baseball Prospectus launched on Monday, the Cardinals have been predicted to complete with a shedding file 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 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 might assume that might make it the other, would not you? Would not you assume that there can be different guys that might possibly assist? Perhaps sure eyeballs aren’t seeing sure issues,” Edmonds mentioned. “Or are you so ingrained in what you are doing that you do not you assume you want any assist?”
