Off the Knob: Francisco Lindor and Others Break Their Hamates; Tigers Poised to Pounce; Mariners Heavy AL West Favorite

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Karl Ravech, Eduardo Perez and Buster discuss the spate of hamate bone injuries across baseball, hitters chasing bat speed, Spencer Schwellenbach starting the season on the 60-day IL, the re-envisioned Tigers with Framber Valdez in the rotation, Blue Jays analyst Buck Martinez leaving the booth, which players will get the green light to challenge pitches on the spot, and the reconfigured Red Sox. Then, Jorge Castillo has more on Francisco Lindor’s broken hamate, the Mets’ options to replace him at shortstop, Juan Soto moving to left field, Josh Hader’s slow return from injury, the Mariners looking like a heavy favorite in the AL West, and Tarik Skubal vs. Paul Skenes. Later, Sarah Langs tackles the Skubal vs. Skenes question. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 5:43 Clown Car w/ Ravy & Eduardo 29:01 Jorge Castillo 51:08 Sarah Langs 54:54 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.4	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:48.7	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Thursday, February 11, 2006, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:49.5	I'm Buster Only.
0:50.6	Taylor Swink.
0:51.2	He's working from the Swink Studios back in Connecticut.
0:53.5	And Taylor, it's like as soon as the Super Bowl came to an end,
0:57.3	it definitely felt like, okay, time to get baseball going.
1:01.3	And the news is flowing in, Buster.
1:03.3	I mean, this email I sent you is quite long.
1:05.8	There's all sorts of injury news and signings and already some trade chatter going on.
1:12.1	I mean, we're rocking and rolling buster.
1:14.8	Getting their ground running, although I would say what happens is that injuries begin to
1:19.3	emerge for teams starting in late December, January's pitchers are throwing,
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