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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Kiley McDaniel joins Buster to discuss his top 100 prospect list, when the Orioles will debut Adley Rutschman, if there’s more pressure on teams to call players up, the rhetoric surrounding Anthony Volpe, O’Neil Cruz’s potential impact for the Pirates, Kiley’s draft board and if Freddie Freeman stays with the Braves. Then, Buster’s conversation with a group of major leaguers who are working out in Nashville as they wait for the labor situation to be resolved. Later, Todd Radom stops by to talk about uniform updates in 2022, the Yankees retiring Paul O’Neil’s number, and Buster turns the table on the quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is baseball tonight, the podcast.
0:11.8	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Thursday, February 24, 2022.
0:17.3	I'm Buster only working for my home in New York, Taylor.
0:19.6	Shwenk is producing from his home in Connecticut, Sarah Abbott is back in Nebraska.
0:24.4	As we get started today, I want to say this is a frightening time in the world.
0:28.6	The hearts are with the people of Ukraine.
0:31.8	That is top of mind today.
0:33.9	This is a baseball podcast, something meant to be fun and distraction and we'll do the
0:38.5	best we can for you along those lines.
0:41.5	On the podcast today, we'll be hearing from players waiting for the resolution of the
0:45.4	labor strike.
0:46.4	Earlier this week, I went to Nashville where a bunch of MLB players are working out, including
0:51.4	Oakland's Tony Kemp, the Giants Mikey Stremstee and Kirk Gassali and got their perspective
0:57.4	about how this weight is playing out for them.
1:00.2	We'll be talking with Kyle McDaniel about his prospect rankings and Todd Raidham will
1:03.9	join us for the first of this year's weekly quizzes, but I will turn the tables on him.
1:10.1	First an update on the labor situation.
1:13.4	Yep, we're still in the same place.
1:18.4	Let's hope that the folks involved in these talks understand how they ridiculous they look
1:22.8	within the context of what's going on in this country and in the world.
1:26.2	In my opinion, the owners need to take a big step to the middle because they have more
1:30.8	money.
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