Master of Ceremonies

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Tim Kurkjian and Buster discuss Tim’s duties at Brian Cashman’s Catholic University Hall of Fame induction, the Padres trading for Sean Manaea, if the A’s are retooling or tanking, the Mets’ pitching woes with Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer's injuries, deGrom still insisting he’s going to opt out of his contract at the end of the year, where Buster thinks deGrom will end up, and the White Sox trading Craig Kimbrel for AJ Pollock from the Dodgers. Then, Buster talks to Yankees GM Brian Cashman about Tim’s handling of his Hall of Fame induction, making trades during the weekend’s festivities, his comments about the 2017 ALCS, recommending Carlos Beltrán for the YES Network, improving the team’s defense and Josh Donaldson. Later, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Monday April 4th, 2022 and today will be better
0:18.4	than yesterday.
0:19.4	Taylor Schwenke is producing from his home studio in the foothills of Connecticut,
0:22.6	Camposter Only, I'm down in Tampa and Sarah Abbott is not in Nebraska. You are in Bristol,
0:29.3	Sarah.
0:30.3	Yes, I'm on campus today. This is my first day here. It's so exciting and I'm loving it
0:35.8	so far.
0:36.8	Nice. Are you going to walk around, explore it, look for all the Knicks and Crannies, you're
0:41.0	going to go get a picture taken on the sports center set?
0:43.8	Well, yes, that's the goal. Right now, I found the Starbucks and that's priority one for
0:51.0	me.
0:52.0	I'm going to go out on a Monday morning for sure. It's a busy day for Sarah's and busy weekend
0:56.3	and major league baseball, all kinds of moves. We talked during the lockout about how there
1:00.2	was going to be this tidal wave of stuff coming down with trades and signings and that continued
1:05.0	over the weekend.
1:06.0	San Diego Padres acquired left handed picture Sean Bonilla in a trade with the Oakland
1:10.4	athletics who continue their tear down. And the funny thing about this was it went down
1:15.3	on Sunday morning.
1:16.8	Sean Bonilla was scheduled to pitch on Sunday. So instead of taking the mound for Oakland,
1:21.9	he did it for the Padres against the athletics, which meant that when he went out to warm up,
1:27.5	he passed all of his athletic teammates. That greeting was captured by A's on NBC.
1:32.6	Sean Bonilla, who's out of the game. Getting down the right field, I think as he was doing
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