Joey Votto Signs with the Toronto Blue Jays; The Pitching Ninja joins the pod; Chicago Cubs and Oakland Athletics Team Previews

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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On this latest episode of Baseball Tonight, Buster Olney shares the latest news of Joey Votto signing with the Toronto Blue Jays as a non-roster invite, Los Angeles Dodgers Mookie Bets moving to shortstop and New York Yankees Oswald Peraza's shoulder injury. Then, Rob Friedman, The Pitching Ninja joins the show to share some stories and tips he's learned from working with MLB pitchers. Sarah Langs also joins the show to play the numbers game. She's followed by Taylor McGregor, play-by-play commentator for the Chicago Cubs, who sits down to give us a team preview of that team. Next up is ESPN's MLB and Little League Director of Programming Rick Mace, who takes the time to give us some insight about how the leagues draw new prospects to baseball! Then, Jenny Cavnar, play-by-play commentator for the Oakland Athletics, gives her team preview for the A’s! Lastly, we end with Bleacher Tweets! 0:00 MLB Latest News 4:00 Rob Friedman, Pitching Ninja 26:03 Sarah Langs 38:45 Cubs Team Preview 48:38 Rick Mace, Director of Programming and Acquisitions for MLB and Little League 58:06 Oakland Athletics Team Preview 01:10:51 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:07.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:20.0	This is Baseball Tonight. This is a baseball tonight podcast for Monday, March 11th, 2024 and today will be better than yesterday.
0:22.0	I'm buster only and working in Florida. Sean Bartley is working in California and
0:26.0	Sean we we hope that Joey Bata would get a job and it happened. How cool was that the other day
0:31.4	when you saw that news?
0:32.6	Man, what crystal ball did you have?
0:34.6	Because you predicted that one, man.
0:37.6	And that's really exciting for him.
0:39.1	I'm happy that he was able to sign with a team,
0:42.0	so I'm looking forward to it. He had so much passion when he talked to us like you
0:46.8	would feel he was just burning to get back on the field. It was pretty clear you know it's not
0:51.5	about money it's not about anything other than getting back on the field and playing
0:55.1	baseball. He signed with the Blue Jays as a non-roster invitee, which means that he's in the
1:01.8	Major League clubhouse, but he's not on the
1:03.6	roster he's likely to start the year in the minor leagues if he reaches the
1:08.4	major leagues he's getting a two million dollar base salary plus two million in
1:11.8	incentives if he reaches those the possibility of
1:14.4	that here's Joey Vato on Sunday talking about joining his hometown team.
1:20.1	Yeah I was a I was a Toronto boy I I grew up in Mimico, like Shore and Park Lawn. It was a little bit of time in Oakville, but you know my family worked in downtown Toronto and I was a Blue Day's fan. I watched Carter hit the walk off
1:37.7	home run. I watched us win against the Braves on the road. Those were the most exciting moments of my childhood.
1:45.6	And so the idea that I'm back with the opportunity to possibly be a part of a team down the road that has championship
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