Grunting’, Snarlin’: Yankees Missing the Clutch Gene; Guardians’ Steven Kwan on Losing to Children in Chess

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Jesse Rogers and Tim Kurkjian discuss the Yankees’ inability to win in big moments, winning streaks for the Marlins and Pirates, how Jed Hoyer is examining the Cubs’ bullpen, the Astros still chugging along despite missing Yordon Álvarez, Javier Báez’s resurgence, and whether they’d take Paul Skenes or Tarik Skubal to win one game. Then, Jesse talks to Steven Kwan from the dugout in Wrigley about his family stuffing the All-Star Game ballot box, the Guardians needing to return to their identity, wintering in Chicago, offseason pursuits and being humbled by a 10-year-old in chess. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 09:31 Tim Kurkjian 31:25 Steven Kwan 36:56 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.4	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:45.6	Welcome to the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, July 2nd.
0:46.7	I'm Jesse Rogers.
0:48.7	Filling in for Buster only today.
0:53.8	Coming up on the pod, you'll hear a conversation I had last night at Wrigley Field with Stephen Kwan of the
0:54.6	Guardians. He's up for a second consecutive All-Star start. Voting ends today for that.
1:00.2	We'll find out at 7th Eastern tonight who is the starting players for the American and
1:06.7	National League teams for this year's Midsummer Classic. Later, Tint Kirchen will join me to talk about the news the day.
1:13.9	There are dark clouds in New York.
1:15.7	They were appropriate yesterday as one MET fan texted me, hey, at least we didn't lose to the rainout.
1:21.8	The Yankees could use their rainout as well.
1:24.0	They didn't play well in Toronto, and they haven't been playing well lately.
1:26.7	We'll talk to Tim about the goings-on with the New York teams and the rest of the league.
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