Always Up To Something: Phillies GM Dave Dombrowski on Trading for Jhoan Duran; AL & NL West Races; Hembo on the Brewers

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Tim Kurkjian and Buster discuss the Cal Raleigh as the main attraction during the Little League Classic in Williamsport, the Padres catching the Dodgers in the NL West, the Mariners catching the Astros in the AL West, the Brewers lighting up Paul Skenes, and how Skenes should handle his future on a bad team. Then, Dave Dombrowski talks about his conversations with the Twins when acquiring Jhoan Duran at the trade deadline, if he's ever fearful when executing a trade and the importance of relationships in his position. Later, Hembo on the Yankees' schedule advantage as they try to stay in the playoff race, the Mets' pitching woes, three reasons why Milwaukee is the best team in baseball, Jerry Dipoto building the best lineup in Seattle since 2001, and the Rockies are having a pernicious effect on the playoff picture. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 8:24 Tim Kurkjian 25:26 Phillies GM Dave Dombrowski 37:49 Hembo 56:47 Bleacher Tweets 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 Wednesday, August 13th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:18.9	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana. Taylor Schwink is working from ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut. And Taylor, you said to me a couple weeks ago, like David Dombrovsky is like the Great White Whale for the show. Like you've been waiting for David Dombrovsky to join the show at some point. I feel like we have a conversation every six weeks. Let's get Dave Dombrovsky on. Come on, come on. And we try every avenue we can. And we keep coming up to roadblocks. And here we are, Buster, on the precipice of having him on the show. Very excited. One of the best GMs in the game. Tim has good thoughts on him ahead of his appearance. So I'm very excited. Yeah, today we're going to be
0:54.5	talking with Dave. We're going to ask him about how they wind up with baseball's best closer in the
0:59.2	dealmaking before the trade deadline. I'm going to ask about fear that a general manager has as he
1:04.8	potentially, you know, sorts through trade offers. We're going to be talking with Tim and we're
1:10.5	going to be talking with Paul and we're going to be talking with
1:11.1	Paul and Bikidis as well. Look, we have a changing at the guard in a couple of divisions.
1:17.4	First, in the National League West, the Dodgers face the Angels with just a one game lead
1:24.1	over the San Diego Padres. And in the middle of this game, top of the sixth
1:28.4	inning, this happened.
1:30.0	Counts two and two on him here in the pitch.
1:32.0	He players one.
1:33.6	It's stopped by Netto.
1:35.4	Catches it goes.
1:36.6	The second fires on to first base.
1:39.3	That's a triple play.
1:42.0	Oh, my goodness.
1:44.4	Yeah. Terry Smith, Angels Radio, AM 830.
1:47.4	It was six all, bottom of the 10th, and this happened.
1:50.0	One, two, on Adele, and that's a bouncer on the third base side.
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