Copacetic: State of the Mets; Evaluating Catchers; Phillies & Braves' Latest Moves; Labor Situation

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss their yearly task of putting together top-10 player lists, evaluating catchers, the Phillies signing Adolis Garcia, the Braves' retool plan, and the market trends Hembo is seeing this offseason. Then, Jeff Passan talks about the state of the Mets, how he thinks the Tigers should handle Tarik Skubal, the shifting intra-division dynamics, and the latest on the labor situation. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 6:05 Hembo 31:55 Jeff Passan 1:04:44 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there. Surprise.
0:02.1	30 for 30 presents Booja.
0:05.2	Can I get a witness from the congregation?
0:08.1	You can't stop authenticity.
0:10.0	Boo ya!
0:11.0	Stewart was exactly like you saw him on camera, off camera.
0:14.5	He dialed it up 10%.
0:15.7	Can you imagine the impact of young black boys and girls looking at that going, I feel seen.
0:21.4	He changed the culture.
0:22.7	He changed sports.
0:24.2	Stream Booja, presented by Modelo, right now on the ESPN app.
0:34.0	Way out of here.
0:36.6	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:42.3	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, December 17th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:50.4	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana where it's like 50 degrees. the way it has been the last couple weeks, Taylor. Taylor Swink is working from ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut.
1:01.3	Taylor, I wanted to ask you about our plans going forward because I have some ideas that we haven't talked about off fair.
1:07.7	So Buster, we got two weeks worth of the year left, two weeks of the year left. And, you know, it's that gray area, Christmas time, New Year's time. You know, we're expecting more transactional news here. But, you know, it probably will be a little bit quiet on the baseball scene. So we do want to get some podcasts out, but we have been toying around with, you know, maybe some more evergreen segment ideas. Okay. Yeah, we have that. And I want to get into that. You and I talked last week about doing sort of a fan, you know, the bleacher tweets, toward the top of the show. Oh, I've got a bunch. You talked about doing it this week, but there were enough moves. And we have two great guests today. Paul Mekita is going to join us, and then Jeff Passon will join us. My conversations with Jeff about the Mets, what comes next in the labor discussions. How about I propose next Monday, how about you and I do a podcast in which we lead with the bleacher
2:03.9	tweets? That sounds good. I was prepared to do it today. I have a whole raft of tweets from our
2:10.7	inbox, bleachertweets at gmail.com, hashtag bleachertweets on X. Phone number is in the show
2:15.8	notes if you want to hit up the voicemail line.
2:18.9	But I've got a ton right now.
2:20.5	I will save them all.
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