Episode 387: The Byron Buxton Blues
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2018
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' decision not to make Byron Buxton a September call-up and what it means for his future, plus the pros and cons of "The Opener" strategy, trading Bobby Wilson for Chris Gimenez, Jorge Polanco's declining defense, Jake Cave forcing the issue, and mailbag questions from listeners. Sponsored by Harry's Razors, Pick and Shovel Wear and Bye, Goff & Rohde.
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| 0:00.0 | Gleman and the geek. |
| 0:05.4 | Talking baseball every week. |
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| 0:17.1 | And welcome to Gleman and the geek. |
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| 0:35.6 | I'm John Bonas, of Twinsdaily.com. With me is Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Perspectus. |
| 0:39.1 | John, I just want you to know I would never suppress your service time. |
| 0:44.3 | We have got a topic. |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah, we got a topic. |
| 0:47.0 | 48 hours ago or even maybe 24 hours ago was, yeah. |
| 0:50.5 | Did you see this coming? |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah, I mean. |
| 0:54.1 | How big of a surprise? |
| 0:56.2 | I'm not surprised by it. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm more disappointed. |
| 0:59.4 | The last four or five days, it kind of felt like it was leading this way. |
| 1:03.8 | Right. |
| 1:04.0 | Maybe the last week or so. |
| 1:06.1 | But, I mean, if I would have literally last week on the show, last week, if I had |
| 1:09.9 | said to you, I wonder if they really call up Buxton or if they just leave them down there so that they don't have to worry. We would have both, I think we'd have both said, now, that's silly. Well, yeah, I mean, I think it is silly. Yes. So I think we both would have said that'll never happen. I think the point they initially said when they were asked about September call-ups in general. |
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