Imperfect Choices: Best and Worst Fits for Alex Bregman; 5 Most Regrettable Trades Since 2000

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss interesting win totals for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds, Hembo’s five most regrettable trades since 2000, the Tampa Bay Rays appearing decent on paper heading into Spring Training, what the Blue Jays should offer Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and which team Alex Bregman should avoid. Then, Jesse Rogers talks about all of Bregman’s options, the Houston Astros moving swiftly to replace Bregman, why the Detroit Tigers would be a good fit, the Dansby Swanson piece, the latest no news on Pete Alonso, and why Jesse likes the Sacramento A’s in 2025. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 6:07 Hembo 29:13 Jesse Rogers 43:49 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.2	I'm Buster Only working from Montana.
0:50.9	Taylor Shwink is working from the Shwink Studios back in Connecticut.
0:55.0	And man, Taylor. I'm looking at video of the Dodger players. You know, they had this media availability yesterday,
1:02.0	and they have video of, who was at Shoah Otani, down in Arizona. He's working out.
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1:14.7	in Montana, I've used a snowblower four different times. I mean, it's just a constant deluge of snow.
1:20.1	I'm ready for spring training. I don't know about you. Wow. Okay. So two things for Buster.
1:24.4	You talked about your snowblower used before we started recording.
1:28.2	So I just knew you were going to sneak that in somewhere.
1:30.5	But for you to officially declare you're ready for spring training.
1:33.7	You're over winter.
1:35.0	It is February 4th right now.
1:36.5	I feel like that's very early for you.
1:38.6	And I still have a ways to go.
1:41.1	Like May.
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