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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

A Fight For All Catchers

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Buster Olney interviews J.J. Piccolo, Executive VP and GM of the Kansas City Royals, discuss what Piccolo sees from his team this year. Then, Buster turns the mic to Jeff Berry, a longtime player agent. Berry talks about what it was like going into free agency with the number one catcher in baseball, J.T. Realmuto. Next, Sarah Langs jumps on the pod to play the Numbers Game before producer Taylor and Hembo preview the Phillies-Orioles series this weekend. Todd Radom rounds out the show with a story about Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, one of baseball's greatest ambassadors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Way out of here.

0:07.0

This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.

0:10.0

This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast. This is a baseball tonight podcast for Friday, June 14th, 2024 and today will be

0:19.8

better than yesterday.

0:21.2

Taylor Schwank is taking the day off, sort of.

0:24.2

You're going to hear him on the podcast.

0:25.9

He does a segment with Paul and Bikinis.

0:27.6

And stepping in for him.

0:28.9

Adrian is joining us from California. Sean's joining us from California.

0:32.6

Sean's joining us from California.

0:34.2

John is in Texas, on Buster Only,

0:36.4

working from my home in Montana.

0:38.2

I gotta say the bar is really low for you guys

0:41.6

in terms of stepping in for Taylor, right?

0:44.3

You know, him getting a well-deserved day off, but it's pretty easy show to run.

0:49.2

We love it though.

0:50.2

Love hanging out with you.

0:51.2

All right, and I want to say that today is the birthday of my amazing partner, Liz Shanahan,

0:55.8

if you see Liz, please wish her happy birthday.

0:58.8

Sarah Langs will be joining us and she remind us why birthdays matter. We're also going to be talking with Jeff Berry, the agent who we had on recently to talk about the Josh Hader rules. He's going to talk about a negotiation with another superstar that resulted in exactly one offer.

1:16.0

And we also are going to be speaking with J.J. Piccolo, the general manager, executive vice president of the Kansas City Royals,

1:25.5

has got some great stories about Bobby Witt Jr. Our top five for this week, number one, the Philadelphia

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