Grinder: Cubs GM Jed Hoyer; Non-Dodger World Series Contenders Draft; Cards Extend Ollie Marmol

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Cardinals extend manager Oliver Marmol, Tarik Skubal has high praise for Tigers’ prospect Kevin McGonigle, and the World Baseball Classic is about to begin. Buster Olney and David Schoenfield discuss. Plus, the guys draft World Series hopefuls that have the best chances of unseat the Los Angeles Dodgers. Then, Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer stops by to talk about how his perspective on the WBC has changed, recruiting Alex Bregman, what to expect from Pete Crow-Armstrong after a tough second half of 2025, and why Michael Busch is one of the league’s most underrated players. Later, Buster previews the Cleveland Guardians and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Finally, Buster answers your questions during Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 David Schoenfield 9:45 Non-Dodger Contender Draft 20:19 Cubs GM Jed Hoyer 37:01 Headlines 38:15 Cleveland Guardians preview 39:39 Pittsburgh Pirates preview 40:51 Bleacher Tweets CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEET Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From 30 for 30 Podcasts.
0:04.0	What are you in a lot?
0:07.0	Did you say someone got to stop?
0:09.0	Brian Patta, senior defensive lineman from Miami, gunned down.
0:14.0	The key to this case, it's Brian.
0:17.0	Boy, he's breath there.
0:18.0	An hour before he died, he was on the phone. Argued what about this might be a hit.
0:22.8	You want the truth.
0:23.8	Biggest one of conviction.
0:24.6	Being placed him to arrest.
0:26.4	We had a killer amongst us.
0:28.2	Murder at the U.
0:29.0	Listen now.
0:33.9	Way out of here.
0:36.8	This is baseball tonight, the podcast. This is baseball tonight the podcast
0:39.8	this is the baseball tonight
0:43.3	podcast for Monday March 2nd
0:45.5	2006 and today
0:47.4	will be better than yesterday on Buster
0:49.3	only working from my hotel room
0:51.4	down in Lakeland, Florida. On Monday
0:53.5	we have an exhibition broadcast of a game between the Detroit Tigers and the Atlanta Braves
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