Antiquated Arbitration System

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss Buster’s article on Josh Hader establishing usage rules after an ugly arbitration loss with the Brewers, why valuing saves as the currency for relievers is obsolete, Gunnar Henderson’s Cal Ripken-like start, and why Edwin Diaz has lost it. Then, Xavier Scruggs talks about how teams are using the Apple Dugout App, his thoughts on the Hader piece, Kyle Tucker entering the AL MVP conversation, big guys starting slow and team meetings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024 and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.6	I'm Buster only working from my home in Montana.
0:22.3	Taylor Schwenke is in studio tea again.
0:24.6	Is that what we're looking at?
0:25.9	Yes, sir, Buster.
0:26.6	We've got a big guest coming to campus today.
0:28.8	Lola Shink is making her bristle debut in the cafeteria. My wife, Courtney, bringing her in, in the cafeteria.
0:33.0	My wife, Courtney, bringing her in,
0:34.3	gonna meet the pod pals,
0:36.0	and it should be a nice day,
0:37.3	but we gotta get started here.
0:39.3	Yeah, and we got a lot to get to today.
0:42.6	You know, I told you off air about the story
0:45.4	that I've been working on for weeks,
0:47.5	about Astros reliever Josh Hater
0:51.1	and how when he was with the Milwaukee Brewers after losing an arbitration case
0:56.4	his agent and he Jeff Barry established rules and gave them the Brewers and said look I'm not going to pitch except
1:04.8	under these circumstances because you get as Jeff Berry said to David
1:09.3	Stern's then the general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, you can't have it both ways.
1:14.1	You can't in arbitration diminish what he's doing
1:17.5	as sort of a Swiss Army nice reliever
1:19.8	and then not Pam.
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