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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Clear Villain: Tigers Should've Paid Tarik Skubal; Team Win Totals Release; Kiley McDaniel on Prospect Top-100

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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3.74.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Hembo and Buster discuss the Mariners waiting out the market and trading for Brendan Donovan from the Cardinals, why the Tigers are doing Tarik Skubal dirty by not paying him, Hembo’s best pitcher in baseball, and which team win totals look ripe for a wager. Then, Kiley McDaniel stops by to talk about the Donovan trade from the Cardinals’ perspective, his excitement over top prospect Konnor Griffin, players who shot up his board after the draft, and if George Lombard Jr. will force his way to the Bronx at shortstop.  CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 3:42 Hembo 30:50 Kiley McDaniel 50:26 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

way out of here this is baseball tonight the podcast this is a baseball tonight podcast for tuesday

0:14.5

february third two thousand twenty six and today will be better than yesterday a muster

0:19.6

only in producing today as he does in every one of our podcast, is Taylor Shwink. He's working back in Bristol. Taylor, how you doing? I'm great, Buster, a little chilly, but all good. How are you? I'm doing great. I'm excited today. We're going to do one of my favorite podcasts of the year is to talk about over unders for team win totals.

0:39.9

We got Paul and Bikidias coming up to talk about that.

0:42.3

And Kylie McDaniel is going to explain why he's so excited about the top of this year's top 100 prospect list.

0:50.3

That was published last week, but he'll explain why there's great news ahead for the

0:56.3

Tigers. There's great news ahead potentially for the Pittsburgh Pirates. But before we get to all

1:01.1

that, we have some other news that has happened since our last podcast. The Cincinnati Rents

1:07.7

added slugger Ahuea Ais Juarez, a one-year $15 million deal. You would assume he's probably going to get a lot of run at DH because they traded for Cabriott Hayes last year. The Reds continue to try to get better, continue to try to win. The other day, the Mariners traded for Cardinals' All-Star infielder Brendan Donovan in a three-team trade that saw the St. Louis

1:28.7

Cardinals get prospects in return. We're going to talk about this trade with Hembo with Kylie,

1:33.5

from the Mariners' perspective, from the Cardinals' perspective. On Wednesday, Terrick Scoobal,

1:39.1

who's won the American League signing award the last two seasons, will square off with the Detroit

1:44.0

Tigers in an arbitration

1:45.5

hearing. And I'll explain why I think there's a clear villain in what's going on here. And I keep on

1:52.2

waiting for that villain to step forward and to take care of this situation, which is really ugly.

2:00.7

The athletics continue their youth movement, signing shortstop Jacob Wilson,

2:04.9

to a 70 million seven-year contract they continued to build as they get closer to that move to Las Vegas.

2:11.9

The San Francisco Giants agreed to terms of Louisa Rise, a veteran batting champion who signed a one-year contract for

2:20.9

$12 million. He's going to be playing second base for the Giants. Hembo's going to tell you why he

2:25.6

thinks that it's a good idea or a bad idea. Dodgers closer Edwin-Diaz is going to pitch for

2:31.0

Puerto Rico in the WBC. There was some question about that because, of course, Diaz suffered that devastating knee injury when he was the closer of the Mets at the end of the WBC.

2:42.0

Vinnie Pascantino agreed to a two-year contract with the Kansas City Royals for a deal that could be worth as much as $15.7 million.

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