Hangover or Continuation: Picking Division Winners, Wild Card Teams & More; Red Sox Manager Alex Cora Stops By

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Opening Day is right around the corner. Buster Olney and Jesse Rogers discuss some of the storylines playing out at Spring Training while the World Baseball Classic wrapped up. The Rangers’ Wyatt Langford looks great, the Braves’ offense needs to get right and the Blue Jays are slow-playing Trey Yesavage. Then, Jesse shares his predictions for division and award winners, and his wild card teams. Next, Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora stops by to talk about his thoughts on the World Baseball Classic, Wilyer Abreu looking sharp, which manager called him to talk about Roman Anthony, if the Red Sox have enough power in their lineup, and how he’s handling the back end of the rotation. Later, Buster answers your questions during Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 Welcome 0:56 Phillies sign Cristopher Sanchez to 6-year deal 5:26 Rangers Wyatt Langford looks great 8:04 Braves offense needs to perform 10:31 Blue Jays holding out Trey Yesavage 11:00 Making predictions for the 2026 MLB season 11:29 AL East 13:18 AL Central 14:19 AL West 15:41 AL Wild Card Teams 17:39 NL West 17:45 NL Central 18:28 NL West 18:49 NL Wild Card Teams 19:52 Are Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani MVP Locks? 20:54 Picking against Paul Skenes or Tarik Skubal for Cy Young? 21:30 Rookie of the Year picks 23:33 Red Sox Manager Alex Cora joins the show 24:02 Cora’s thoughts on the World Baseball Classic 28:39 Wilyer Abreu’s breakout performance at the WBC 30:09 Getting calls from other managers about Roman Anthony 32:14 Outlook on the 2026 Boston Red Sox 35:26 Other Headlines: Boston 2B Marcelo Mayer makes the team 36:16 Bleacher Tweets CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS Follow The Baseball Tonight Podcast on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeL6O-A-ASmSMwbSCFvPKEq1Cslo_lrw Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FG6xCcd338SgZjZ9urHRI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-tonight-with-buster-olney/id137699414 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bowser is back.
0:02.0	Ha ha!
0:03.0	Bouser!
0:04.0	Everyone calm down!
0:08.0	The Super Mario Brothers can take care of the kingdom.
0:11.0	Let's go!
0:13.0	On April 1st, Toad, pack our things.
0:16.0	The galaxy is waiting.
0:20.0	Who is this? Who is this?
0:21.6	So some cool dinosaur just shows up and he's now part of the group.
0:25.4	Cool.
0:26.0	The Super Mario Galaxy movie, only in cinema's April 1st.
0:32.3	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Monday, March 23rd, 2006, and today will be better than yesterday. Taylor
0:40.8	Schwink is producing this podcast from his home in the Schwink Studios. I'm Buster Only working from my hotel
0:46.1	in Boston, and Jesse Rogers joins us from Chicago for the top of the first. Jesse, how you doing?
0:53.1	Doing well, getting ready for opening
0:54.6	day and exciting time of year. Everybody starts in first place, Buster. Everyone's hopeful.
1:00.9	Their batting average is perfect. Their ERA is perfect. Just a note to everybody, we've got Alex
1:07.0	Core, the manager of the Red Sucks joining us. We interviewed him toward the end of last week after the WBC.
1:12.6	Had a lot of interesting thoughts about that, about whether or not you could have a week-long type format in the middle of the season.
1:19.1	And, of course, about the Boston Red Sox.
1:21.3	We did talk to him before the Marcella Meyer news.
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