Erik joins the show to talk about his newly release books “The Tao of the Backup Catcher”, his thoughts on the Cardinals moves going into the deadline, the different ways the Cardinals and Contreras have struggled in their relationship, why the mindset of the backup catcher is more important to the baseball, living in almost 100 different places in his decade-long MLB career and where he thinks the Shohei sweepstakes could end up.

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