Not Talking to Us

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto and Buster discuss Seattle’s turnaround, his thought process around the trade deadline, Julio Rodríguez alleviating his internal pressure, J.P. Crawford’s importance to the clubhouse and the team believing they can compete with the Astros. Then, Hembo returns to talk about the Angels dumping their trade acquisitions and if MLB should do anything about similar moves in the future, who he thinks will win the NL MVP, the Yankees’ organizational review, and his top-three World Series contenders. Later, the Orange County Register’s Jeff Fletcher on on Shohei Ohtani’s lack of media availability, his free agency value and if Ohtani already knows where he wants to play next season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:11.8	This is Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, and today will be better
0:18.4	than yesterday.
0:19.9	Taylor Schring, Bruce Baldwin, I'm working back in Connecticut, I'm Buster only in my
0:23.4	home in Montana.
0:25.4	Taylor, fun show today.
0:26.9	We get the return of Paul Hempecating's, right?
0:30.2	It should be a national holiday, there should be a parade thrown in his honor, we're going
0:33.9	to unveil his statue, but in all seriousness, his absence has been noted.
0:39.0	There's been a lot of days where we're trying to figure out guests and you know, times
0:43.6	are lean over here.
0:44.6	Our regular list is dwindled a little bit and we're looking at each other like we need
0:48.7	Hembo right now.
0:49.7	But he's back just in time for the playoff push, very excited.
0:53.7	And you know he's going to have an attitude.
0:55.9	You know he's going to be bringing it with a lot of facts and figures, including kind
0:59.8	of a crazy situation that has developed in the last 24 hours with the angels during
1:05.5	the podcast today.
1:06.5	You're also going to hear from Jerry DePoto, who had a baseball operations for the Seattle
1:10.1	Mariners, as well as Jeff Fletcher, the Orange County Registrar is going to talk to us
1:15.0	about Shohei O'Connie and what his future is and the red flags around his current situation.
1:20.7	All right.
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