Golden Ticket: Hembo, Eric Hosmer & Jorge Castillo Take Swings at Juan Soto's Final Number; Sarah Langs on Brandon Crawford Retiring

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss the Golden Swing and why Hembo thinks it’s the worst idea since Adam ate the apple. Plus, Hembo on Willy Adames or Alex Bregman, if Corbin Burnes being overvalued; the best bargain on the starting pitching market and his BBWAA HOF ballot. Then, Eric Hosmer talks about how much Juan Soto will score in free agency and which Royals player he called first when he left Kansas City. Next, Jorge Castillo on the Dodgers signing Blake Snell and extending Tommy Edmond, and the Angels’ flurry of activity. Finally, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game and shares her thoughts on Brandon Crawford’s retirement. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 6:34 Hembo 21:59 Eric Hosmer 34:36 Jorge Castillo 47:32 Sarah Langs 54:20 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	way out of here this is baseball tonight the podcast this is the baseball tonight
0:13.3	podcast for wednesday december 4th 2004 and today will be better than yesterday
0:18.8	i'm buster only working from my home in Montana.
0:21.2	Taylor Shwink is back in the Shwink Studios after a week off and Taylor.
0:25.3	We're kind of in a weird place today, right?
0:27.7	You and I are talking on Wednesday morning.
0:30.2	We've got a bunch of taping.
0:31.2	You've got a bunch of people coming up that we're going to talk to.
0:34.3	But the big news is out there.
0:36.2	Like we're waiting for Juan Soto to make his decision. And so,
0:41.4	you know, today, I kind of wonder if in the middle of this taping, we're going to, someone's going to be
0:46.0	texting us saying, hey, this deal is done. It's kind of like whale watching buster. We're out here
0:50.3	at sea. We know, you know, this is where they like to hang out. They like the seals
0:54.4	this time of year, but we're just waiting from to pop up right now. So hopefully not during the
0:58.3	show or like immediately afterward because that would really throw things into flux. Right. And,
1:03.2	you know, is it going to be the Mets? Is it going to be the Yankees? Is it going to be the Red Sox,
1:06.7	the Toronto Blue Jays, you know, who could, went in putting out the best number.
1:16.4	I heard something interesting this morning that there's some optimism that if Boris wanted to,
1:22.9	Scott Boris, who represents Soto, he could get 50 million times 15 years, $750 million.
1:26.0	So it wouldn't surprise me if that's the number, Taylor.
1:27.3	Dang. You can get through, as we saw with Otani last year, it doesn't have to be real.
1:31.6	It can be a lot of deferrals, right?
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