The Cardinals just handed JJ Wetherholt eight years. Jordan Walker won the Home Run Derby and became a national star overnight, and Bernie Miklasz says the clock on locking him up is already running. Bernie breaks down why this is the ideal moment for St. Louis to open long term extension talks with their 24 year old All-Star right fielder, how the Wetherholt contract structure actually creates the payroll runway to do it, and why the "let's wait one more season" argument may backfire on the Cardinals in a big way. He also revisits the 2017 Giancarlo Stanton trade pursuit as evidence that Cardinals ownership will spend when it decides to.
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