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Core question: Have Cardinals identified Chaim Bloom's starting foundation or is an overhaul ahead?

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Core question: Have Cardinals identified Chaim Bloom's starting foundation or is an overhaul ahead?

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As the Cardinals approach the onrushing July 31 trade deadline, what if the moves made (or not made) are just prelude to a larger overhaul of the organization in the opening months of Chaim Bloom's tenure leading baseball operations.

A simple, direct, but essential question about whether the Cardinals four months into their "runway" season have identified the core of their next contending team prompts a lengthy discussion about what's still missing, what hasn't emerged, and what players have made their best case to be part of the foundation upon which Bloom is expected to build a contending team? 

That is where the conversation between ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold and KMOX/104.1 FM host Kevin Wheeler  continues, and where it goes touches on future talents, the need for stars, and even the environment at the ballpark. 

In its 13th season as one of the first and most popular Cardinals-related podcasts, the Best Podcast in Baseball in sponsored by Closets by Design of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½. BPIB is a production of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Post-Dispatch, , and Derrick Goold.

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