Retired MLB star blasts former team, leaves broadcast booth for 2025

Former MLB outfielder Jim Edmonds says changes in the culture surrounding the St. Louis Cardinals have made it ‘not fun anymore.’ And as a result, he will not be part of the team’s local broadcast crew this season.

In a radio interview with ESPN 101 in St. Louis on Monday morning, Edmonds – who played eight seasons with the Cardinals from 2000 to 2007 – said he and the team have mutually decided to part ways after 12 seasons as a TV analyst.

Edmonds didn’t hold back in criticizing his former employer.

‘I haven’t gone really down in spring training the last couple of years. It’s not fun anymore,’ Edmonds said in a transcription on social media via Cardinals Talk. ‘They don’t make you feel like you’re wanted. … It’s just not the same. It’s not the same organization. It’s not fun to be around.’

Edmonds played 17 seasons in the majors, mostly with the Cardinals and Angels, before calling it a career in 2010. He won eight Gold Gloves in center field, was a four-time All-Star and won a World Series ring in 2006 with St. Louis.

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He was inducted into the Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2014, after beginning his broadcasting career with the team a year earlier.

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