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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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3.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Hembo and Buster discuss the numbers showing the rule changes in baseball are working as intended, the spending by the Padres versus the rest of the league, Aaron Judge's home run over/under, and the best stat you'll hear this week. Then, Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto stops by to talk about the PECOTA win projection for his team, adding Kolten Wong and Teoscar Hernández, how A.J. Pollack can help Jared Kelenic, the next step for Julio Rodríguez, and his view of the AL West. Then, David Schoenfield on the United States and the Dominican Republic having some of the best lineups ever seen in baseball, injuries in the NL East, why he's backing off the Diamondbacks, and what would have to go wrong with the Angels to be out of the playoff chase by the trade deadline. Plus, Buster previews the Mariners and the Rockies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is baseball tonight, the podcast.
0:12.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday, March 8, 2023, and today will be better
0:17.8	than yesterday.
0:19.2	Bruce Baldwin, Sarah Abbott, Taylor Schwink, are working back in Bristol.
0:23.0	I'm Buster only, and I'm working for my home in Montana.
0:27.1	The next round of the World Baseball Classic has kicked off.
0:31.4	Yesterday, the Netherlands played Cuba, and the Netherlands put together a three-run rally
0:36.7	in the sixth inning.
0:38.1	Three strike in every out of the pitches grounded.
0:40.7	Up the middle now it's going through for a base in, round third comes for Gorye and the
0:44.7	Netherlands has its first lead in the 20-23 Classic in two to one in the sixth.
0:50.0	And they were gone and went forward in two.
0:52.7	This morning, Panama beat Chinese Taipei, 12-5, Tayloryup.
0:57.0	I imagine you were there for the first pitch at 6am Eastern time, right?
1:00.8	You know, Buster, I'm on the opposite schedule, so I watched a little bit of this Cuba
1:04.9	Netherlands game last night.
1:06.2	Which was?
1:07.2	That's fair.
1:08.2	Quite a treat.
1:09.2	So were you up watching it?
1:11.2	No.
1:12.2	You know me.
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