Baseball Tonight Live: 2025 MLB Playoff Preview

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Join Tim Kurkjian, Buster Olney and Dave Schoenfield as they get you ready for the MLB playoffs! We’ll break down the matchups to watch as the full postseason picture went down to the wire on the last day of the regular season. Will the Brewers and their home-field advantage throughout the entire postseason be a blessing or a curse? Which Wild Card team could make noise this postseason? Will the World Series champion come out of the NL, with the Phillies, Cubs, Dodgers and Padres all playoff bound? Or will the AL, and the Yankees, Blue Jays, Guardians, Mariners and Tigers emerge as the team to beat? We got everything to watch for so don’t miss the action with this ultimate playoff preview!CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 35:34 Sarah Langs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why do your socials look so good?
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0:21.7	and welcome to baseball tonight live presented by Sage.
0:45.3	I am Tim Kirchgen.
0:47.3	I'm joined by Dave Schoenfield and Buster Olney, who allowed me for some reason to be the point guard tonight. You love to play point
0:55.6	guard. I've been the point guard before, and I'm glad. The Seamhead show. You used to be the point
1:00.8	guard all the time. For several years. And Buster would come on and yell at me, and I had to tell him,
1:05.4	Buster, I'm the host of the show. You're not allowed to yell at me, but you can tonight for sure.
1:11.2	All right. I always think we should talk about the teams that get in on a day like today.
1:16.8	Not the teams that don't, but Buster, I'm not sure we can avoid this.
1:20.7	The Mets were 21 games. Over 500, they had the best record in baseball, and they're not going to the playoffs. How do we explain this?
1:31.2	The worst collapse in baseball history. The first time I had that thought, I was wondering, you know,
1:37.3	is that too hyperbolic? And then you really think about it. The worst collapses we've always
1:42.2	talked about in 1914, in 1964, the Philadelphia
1:47.0	Phillies, only one team made the playoffs from the National League. The 1978 Red Sox,
1:52.0	two teams made the playoffs from the American League. There were six teams that made the playoffs
1:56.0	from the National League. The Mets were in the NLCS last year. They signed Wonsoto, who had a great year,
2:01.9	and they didn't make the playoffs, Tim? Dave, they went 7 and 14 in September, and the ERA
2:07.6	in that 21-game stretch was about five runs a game. Was that the biggest issue? What did you
2:13.3	see that kept the Mets from getting in the playoffs? Yeah, a multitude of issues, 21 and 32 the last
2:19.7	two months. The Reds made it. They were only 27 and 28 the last two months, so all the Mets had
2:25.4	to do was go 500 and they're in. But yeah, the pitching you go back. The first two months,
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