After Your Shower: The Offseason is Here; Reporter Roundtable; Hembo; “Green Fields of the Mind”

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Alden Gonzalez, Jesse Rogers, Jorge Castillo and Buster take a look at the offseason and discuss what’s next for the Dodgers, Cubs, Blue Jays, Yankees, Brewers, Padres, Phillies, Mets, and Tigers. Then, Hembo stops by to talk about the dynamic in Philadelphia between Dave Dombrowski and Bryce Harper, his top three sleep free agents, and if he would trade Tarik Skubal. Next, Todd Radom shares his reflections on the World Series, and if it’s the best he’s ever seen. Finally, Bleacher Tweets, and the annual playing of former MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti’s “Green Fields of the Mind.” CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 0:00 Reporter Roundtable 36:59 Hembo 54:25 Todd Radom 1:03:01 Bleacher Tweets 1:09:02 "Green Fields of the Mind" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:06.7	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:11.7	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Thursday, November 6, 2025, and today will be better
0:17.6	than yesterday.
0:18.4	Taylor Schwink is working from the Swank Studios back in Connecticut.
0:22.3	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana. And today, after a few days of recovering from
0:27.4	the Best World Series, any of us have ever seen, we're diving right into the offseason with a
0:33.1	roundtable to discuss what's to come during the course this winter. And what we're doing here today kind of mirrors what the Jays and Dodgers baseball operations are doing. They just got done playing on Saturday night and they're diving into their offseason. So we're going to do that today with Alden Gonzalez. Alden, how you doing? Doing great, Buster. Thanks for having me. Sure. Jesse Rogers from Chicago, I'm guessing.
0:55.9	Yeah, great to see you, Buster. Good to see everybody here.
0:59.6	All right. And Jorge Castillo from his home in New York.
1:02.7	Jorge, are you doing?
1:04.1	I'm doing well, Buster. Thanks for having me on. This should be fun.
1:07.3	Sure. Well, thanks for joining us. And we're going to just hit a bunch of topics today, you know, talk about a bunch of players, you know, trade ideas, trade thoughts, trade reporting.
1:17.3	We'll start with this, Alden.
1:19.2	What's next for the Dodgers?
1:20.6	Like the Dodgers won the World Series on Saturday.
1:23.6	And immediately, because the baseball, the calendar and what happens, you know, guys are signing up for free agency.
1:32.4	Teams are starting to prepare to make moves in the wintertime.
1:35.2	What are the defending champion Dodgers going to do this winter?
1:38.5	You know, Buster, you know what's interesting about the Dodgers that kind of gets underlooked now that they won the championship?
1:43.3	Is that they had the championship is that they
1:44.7	had a bad off season last year. You think about pouring money into Michael Comforto and Kirby
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