Fluent: Rockies Hire Football Guy; Dombo and Harper on the Mend; Notable Japanese Free Agents

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Tim Kurkjian and Buster discuss the Rockies hiring Paul DiPodesta from the Cleveland Browns to run the team, Dave Dombrowski and Bryce Harper patching things up, Paul Skenes’ future with the Pirates, Nolan Arenado’s trade prospects, and what’s next for the Blue Jays. Then, Hembo stops by to talk about the big free agents coming out of Japan in Tatsuya Imai, Munetaka Murakami and Kazuma Okamoto. Plus, which relievers are the best on the free agency market? CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 0:00 Tim Kurkjian 23:59 Hembo 49:40 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.0	Not much to it is there?
0:06.0	Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.0	Mmm, that is good.
0:13.0	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.0	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:18.0	Delicious.
0:20.0	Delicious.
0:25.5	Way out of here.
0:29.4	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:39.9	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday. I'm Buster only working from my home in Montana where last night we had Northern Lights. Taylor
0:44.4	Schwenk is working from the Schwink Studios back in Connecticut. Did you see those Northern Lights
0:49.3	where you are, Taylor? Oh, I had my eyes peeled as I was driving home from Bristol late night, but nothing, Buster.
0:55.4	They might be out again tonight, so we'll see. Yeah, I'm seeing forecast all over the country.
1:00.1	I saw pictures of Northern Lights in Georgia, which is certainly not common.
1:05.6	Today we'll be speaking with two guests. Paul Hembikides will join us later to talk about the pluses and minuses in the markets of three star Japanese players who are expected to sound with Major League teams in the weeks ahead.
1:17.8	But first, we start with Tim Kirchin.
1:20.7	Of course, he's covered baseball for a long time for ESPN.
1:23.2	Tim, how you doing?
1:24.7	Well, Buster, I did not see the Northern Lights the other night.
1:28.6	I was too busy watching Cade Cunningham missed 31 shots in an NBA game.
1:35.3	You know, it's funny.
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