Glut: Aaron Judge Returns; Yankee Panic or Patience; Best Team in the American League; Thin 2026 HOF Class

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss the New York Yankees losing their fifth straight game, Jhoan Duran’s entrance, what makes Cristopher Sánchez so dominant, how trading Rafael Devers unlocked the Red Sox lineup, and baseball is enjoying unprecedented (on-field) parity. Then, Tim Kurkjian and Dave Schoenfield talk about which team is the best in the American League, the complicated situation with Aaron Judge’s return, chances for the Royals and Guardians to get back in the playoff race, and Buster’s idea for the Hall of Fame. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 7:54 Hembo 27:35 Tim Kurkjian & David Schoenfield 49:49 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:05.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:10.0	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, August 6th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.0	Humbuster only working from my home in Montana.
0:21.3	Taylor Schwink is working from the Bristol Studios back in Connecticut
0:25.7	and Taylor,
0:26.2	you're closer to the source of a lot of panic back in New York about the Yankees.
0:32.4	Oh, my God.
0:33.6	I was watching last night, man.
0:35.3	Devin Williams on the mound.
0:37.1	I was nervous and then he blew it.
0:40.9	And I just, I could feel the cascade of emotion, you know,
0:45.4	racing through the Long Island Sound.
0:48.3	Today we're going to be talking with Tim Kirch and Dave Seanfield together.
0:52.4	We're going to be talking about next year's Hall of Fame class,
0:54.7	an idea for the broadcaster's wing of the Hall of Fame.
0:59.3	But first, we're going to be talking with Paul and Bikidis.
1:02.0	And yeah, we'll be talking about Devin Williams.
1:05.0	For the Yankees, Tuesday was a big day because Aaron Judge returned to the lineup as the DH,
1:09.6	but they ran into Nathan Avaldi,
1:12.2	he was outstanding for the Rangers.
1:14.6	The pitch has swung on and bounced slowly out to Simeon.
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