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QUICK RECAP OF TOBONI CONFERENCE CALL ON BUTERA

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Tim Shovers provides a short recap of Paul Toboni's Conference Call on Tuesday to address the hiring of Blake Butera as new manager. Butera and his wife welcomed a child the same day he accepted the job and his intro press conference is expected to be held later this month in D.C.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:14.0

You know, I think it just starts with the person that Blake is.

0:17.0

You know, I think he just very much aligns with the values that we hold sacred as an organization. And then, you know, I think he just very much aligns with the values that we hold sacred as

0:22.4

as an organization. And then, you know, I think it blake's leadership skills like really

0:26.9

jumped out to us from the get-go, right? And so I think those two things in conjunction with

0:32.4

each other were two of the main driving factors. And then also like he's got a pretty unique set of experiences that didn't necessarily, like, you know, lead us to making the decision in isolation.

0:43.8

But I think we're very beneficial, as we considered, you know, Blake's candidacy relative to the other candidates.

0:50.8

Hello and welcome to a very brief off-season edition of Natschap.

0:55.8

Just me, founder and producer Tim Schovers, coming to you after Paul Toboni, the man you just heard,

1:01.9

the new Nationals President of Baseball Operations, held a conference call with the media today

1:07.3

to discuss the hiring of Blake Uterra as new manager.

1:11.8

It's been quite the stretch for Butera as he and his wife had their first child the same

1:15.8

day that the news broke that he was going to become the youngest MLB manager in a half

1:20.5

century.

1:21.3

The intro press conference at National's Park will come later this month and Alan Mark will

1:25.9

have a Natch chat episode ready for you in reaction to

1:29.4

DC getting to meet Blake Boutera.

1:32.0

Going to play for you a few highlights from what Toboni said, intriguing info as we enter

1:36.8

this new era of Nationals baseball.

1:39.5

Dare I say the Boutera?

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