Bernie Show: DeWitt, 7th best MLB owner?

Bleacher Report's Zachary D. Rymer put together a list of the best and worst current MLB owners as spring training gets underway in advance of the 2025 seasons. Rymer ranked them from No. 1 through No. 30, with No. 1 being the best.

The Top 10 best owners according to Rymer:

Dodgers
Mets
Braves
Astros
Phillies
Yankees
Cardinals
Red Sox
Cubs
Rangers

What's that? Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. is SEVENTH? How can this be? I'm being sarcastic, of course. Because DeWitt's entire body of work as the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals is impressive. But we live in a short attention span culture with too many posers raging against whatever they're in the mood to rage about at a particular time in a desperate pitch for attention.

With all of that hot-take noise, it can be easy to forget -- or intentionally overlook -- all of the success the Cardinals have attained over the last 29 seasons. In recent years DeWitt let the standards slip and inexplicably let the player-development operation fall apart and become outdated. And I have criticized him for it often. But if we're evaluating his ownership over the entire 29-season period, the DeWitt Era has been very good (and rewarding) for Cardinals baseball. Now DeWitt must fix what has gone wrong ... which he has tried to do by hiring Chaim Bloom. That was the first step.