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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Dry Hacks: Mets Lose 11 Straight; Eric Hosmer on Royals Drama; Ben Rice Breaks Out

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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3.74.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Mets are in a tailspin. Is Carlos Mendoza's job on the line in Queens? Eric Hosmer and Buster Olney talk about why there's no drama between Salvador Perez and manager Matt Quatraro, the Kansas City Royals early struggles, Ben Rice breaking out for the Yankees, who goes to the bullpen in New York when Carlos Rodón returns, and which teams they think are underrated to watch. Then, ESPN's MLB draft and prospect expert Kiley McDaniel discuss how Kiley scouted Cincinnati Red Sal Stewart, what he's seen out of Konnor Griffin, the Boston Red Sox's Garrett Crochet giving up 16 runs in two starts, Mason Miller's absurdity, and how the top of the MLB Draft if shaping up. Later, Buster answers your questions during Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 Eric Hosmer joins the show 2:42 Drama in the Kansas City Royals locker room? 8:22 Ben Rice breaks out for Yankees 10:22 Hos likes Will Warren 12:17 Mets keep losing 15:44 Underrated teams 17:33 Kiley McDaniel joins the show 18:35 His scouting reports on Sal Stewart, Konnor Griffin 24:10 Path to a competitive season for the Mets? 27:45 Red Sox Garrett Crochet still struggling 30:53 Yankees rotation/bullpen with Carlos Rodón 34:52 Padres Mason Miller is absurd 38:19 Top prospects in the MLB Draft 43:37 Bleacher Tweets CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS Follow The Baseball Tonight Podcast on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeL6O-A-ASmSMwbSCFvPKEq1Cslo_lrw Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FG6xCcd338SgZjZ9urHRI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-tonight-with-buster-olney/id137699414 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.8

This is the baseball tonight podcast for Monday, April 20th, 20066, and today will be better than yesterday.

0:39.7

Taylor Schwink is producing from his home in Connecticut.

0:42.5

I'm Buster Only I'm working from Connecticut today because we have a summit meeting at ESPN.

0:47.5

And Eric Hosmer, we're actually taping with him on Sunday.

0:51.2

Longtime Big Ligger, of course, with the Kansas City Royals. He's in Yankee Stadium waiting at a rain delay. Haas? What's going on? I got to thank you guys, man. It's been a two-hour delay. We got another hour to go. So thank you, Buster. This is getting me through the rain delay. I needed this. Oh, man. What was your favorite thing to do during a long rain delay in the clubhouse?

1:27.1

I absolutely hated rain delays as a player buster. You're just always on edge. Anytime the coach, the manager, the bench coach, somebody walks into the player's locker room. It's like, what do you got? What's the message? When are we starting? I did not like this. I was just, I was on edge. I didn't like it. I needed to play the game right now.

1:29.2

Were you a card player?

1:34.1

Like, I mean, a I didn't like it I needed to play the game right now were you a card player like I I mean a lot of like you know what games did you guys play to kill time so we were a dealer's choice team which we would mix it up a little bit but it was fun

1:39.3

because we always enjoyed playing cards on the plane you know the bus rides so we would just

1:43.5

kind of pick up the

1:44.2

plane ride card game right there during the rain delay. It was awesome. And we would always have this

1:48.4

fun, our, this is back in the day stuff too, right? I'm not even that old, but we had a rain delay

1:54.2

thing where we had a chef Dante in Kansas City that would put together some corn dogs, some nuggets.

1:59.7

So as soon as the rain delay happened, everyone's rolling up the stairs yelling,

2:03.7

Dante, let's get the corn dogs and nuggets.

2:07.1

So it was awesome, man.

2:08.1

It was fun time to Kansas City.

2:10.0

What are you doing today at Yankee Stadium during the rain delay?

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