Kid Gloves: Reds GM Nick Krall Stops By; West Coast Bias; Toronto’s X-Factor

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Tim Kurkjian and Buster discuss an exciting series between the Padres and Mariners, the Cal Raleigh-Aaron Judge MVP race coming down to the season’s final month, Clayton Kershaw continuing to roll, the odd situation with Ketel Marte in Arizona, and which teams may see managerial changes this offseason. Then, Red GM Nick Krall stops by to talk about his team grinding in pursuit of a playoff spot, his moves at the trade deadline to bolster the squad, and his emphasis on playing clean. Later, Hembo on the Anthony Volpe situation continuing to fester, why base running isn’t the Yankees’ biggest issue, Trevor Rogers dominating, Will Smith holding the Dodgers lineup together, and Shane Bieber shoving for the Blue Jays. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 7:50 Tim Kurkjian 23:00 Reds GM Nick Krall 32:56 Hembo 62:29 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:06.7	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:12.0	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, August 27, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.4	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana. Taylor Shink is working from the Schwink Studios on Wednesday morning, Taylor, before you go into the offices in Bristol. Yeah, it's nice. You know, I like to bounce around. So Schwink Studios, because it's a little bit on the earlier side, hop in the car, cruise to Bristol, bang out the edit, and then it's out to the fine people.
0:54.2	So that's the Wednesday morning routine here in Connecticut. Nice. Bounce around is the perfect phrase for today's podcast, okay? Because we're going to be talking with Tim Kirkkin coming up. We're going to do a little West Coast bus with him. We're going to focus on what's been happening out there. Clayton Kirchow, the great outing that he had last night, maybe talk a little Padres and Dodgers, maybe also talk about
1:00.8	the Diamondback situation. A lot of interesting things going on with the Coutelle-Martee.
1:04.9	We're going to be going to the Midwest. Nick Krawl, the president of baseball operations for
1:09.2	the Cincinnati Reds is going to join us to talk about
1:11.7	what happened before the trade deadline with his team. And we got Hembo. And we're going to be
1:16.3	diving into the Yankees and what exactly has gone wrong with them in this recent slide.
1:23.8	So we're going to have the whole nation span, Taylor.
1:31.8	Buster, when you laid it out like that, it's an even better show than I thought it was going to be.
1:36.6	And it already was a good show in my mind, but you really just kind of, you moved it up a notch or two.
1:38.3	Okay. Well, that's good.
1:42.0	Well, let's start in the Midwest. Brewers Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.
1:45.6	It was a great game. The Diamondbacks were down 8-7, top of the eighth inning when this happened. Canig ready is 0-2 swung on, scooped into shallow left
1:51.9	center field. That's down. Rounding third is Moreno. He'll score. Perdobo to second. It's a game
1:59.3	tying double. That from Arizona game-tying double.
2:06.5	That from Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. Yeah, the Brewers who have a really exhausted bullpen.
2:12.0	They had a big lead in this game. They gave it up. But you know what? It's 2025 and it's the Brewers year. The O-1. And Isaac, a fly ball deep right. This is going to be deep enough. Carol back makes the catch,
2:21.1	tagging his Lockridge. Here's the throw. Lockridge stores standing up, and the Brewers have walked
2:27.1	off the Diamondbacks in game two. I think that might be our first official sackfly highlight of the year.
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