Opening Day Overreactions: Aaron Judge 0-fer; Rookies Shine, Can the Dodgers Win 103 Games?

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Let’s overreact to MLB Opening Day 2026! Karl Ravech, Eduardo Pérez and Buster Olney discuss the joy of baseball’s return, why the overreactions to Aaron Judge’s first game don’t make sense, Paul Skenes getting knocked around with an assist from Oneil Cruz, all the rookies who shined in their debuts, if the Dodgers can win more than 102 games, another quality start from Tarik Skubal, Junior Caminero taking four walks, Jacob Misiorowski’s 11 strikeouts, and what Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s peers are saying about him after is 2025 postseason. Later, Buster answers your questions during Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 MLB Opening Day 2026 overreactions 4:40 Yankees Aaron Judge overreactions 8:28 Pirates Paul Skenes 0.2 IP 9:19 Oneil Cruz’s costly mistake 13:49 Rookies shine on Opening Day 14:28 Tiger Kevin McGonigle 15:48 Mets Carson Benge 16:26 Cardinals J.J. Wetherholt 20:29 Can the Dodgers win 103 games? 25:05 Tigers Tarik Skubal quality start 26:56 Cubs extend Nico Hoerner 27:28 Brewers Jacob Misiorowski throws 11 Ks 28:25 Blue Jays Vladimir Guerrero Jr. ready to roll CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS Follow The Baseball Tonight Podcast on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeL6O-A-ASmSMwbSCFvPKEq1Cslo_lrw Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FG6xCcd338SgZjZ9urHRI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-tonight-with-buster-olney/id137699414 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From 30 for 30 Podcasts.
0:04.0	What are you in a lot?
0:07.0	Did you say someone got to stop?
0:09.0	Brian Patta, senior defensive lineman from Miami, gunned down.
0:14.0	The key to this case, it's Brian.
0:17.0	Boy, he's breath there.
0:18.0	An hour before he died, he was on the phone. This might be a hit.
0:22.8	You want the truth.
0:23.8	Biggest one of conviction being placed him to arrest.
0:26.4	We had a killer amongst us.
0:28.2	Murder at the U.
0:29.0	Listen now.
0:32.3	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, March 27,
0:35.9	2006, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:39.9	I'm Buster Only, and I'm joined today by Eduardo Perez, of course, longtime player, now an
0:44.8	analyst at ESPN and Carl Ravich, the play-by-play man for ESPN baseball. And guys, I'm glad to
0:51.7	have you this first day after, first morning after, we had the full slate of games on Thursday after that opener between the Giants and Yankees. How you doing?
1:01.0	We're doing well. I'm doing great. Usually it's Carl that leads off on this one, but I'm going to take over on this one. I was excited. I was excited. Suffice to say, I'm the same way. The idea that we had baseball back and kids were performing,
1:13.6	it was a good, it was a good day. We haven't seen the Blue Jays yet, so yeah, it's great.
1:18.6	Look, to me, the opening of the season is such a refreshing thing because it can be cold in certain areas,
1:25.6	but you do know within the next couple of weeks,
1:29.5	you're going to be sitting at a ballpark, and it's going to be 75, 80 degrees, you're going to have
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