Spear: First Baseball Fight of the Season; Konnor Griffin Gets the Bag; How Two Players from Red Sox Country Made it to the Bronx

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Our first baseball fight of the year! The Angels and Braves throw punches, and Atlanta manager Walt Weiss spears Jorge Soler! Plus, the Pittsburgh Pirates sign Konnor Griffin to a 9-year, $120M contract. Then, Buster Olney and Jesse Rogers discuss the messy state of the Cubs’ rotation, the Blue Jays’ rough start, and the Milwaukee Brewers throwing at Red Sox catch Willson Contreras again! Later, Yankees scout Matt Hyde talks about finding diamonds in the rough scouting Ben Rice and Cam Schlittler in Massachusetts, and taking them late in the draft. Finally, Buster answers your questions during Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 Welcome 0:45 Konnor Griffin, Pirates sign 9-year $140M deal 1:45 Angels-Braves brawl 3:17 Jesse Rogers joins 3:39 Cubs Cade Horton injured 7:11 Blue Jays rough start 11:25 Red Sox Willson Contreras hit by Brewers again! 19:36 Guardians José Ramírez 21:55 Yankees scout Matt Hyde 23:33 Scouting Ben Rice 30:00 Scouting Cam Schlittler 37:30 Bleacher Tweets 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	Are you in a lot?
0:06.0	He's going to fly on me.
0:07.0	Did you say someone got to stop?
0:09.0	Brian Patta, senior defensive lineman from Miami.
0:12.0	Gunned down.
0:14.0	The key to this case, it's Brian.
0:17.0	Boy, he's grabbed that.
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.
0:24.5	Being placed him to arrest.
0:26.4	We had a killer amongst us.
0:28.2	Murder at the U.
0:28.9	Listen now.
0:30.3	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday, April 8th,
0:34.3	2026, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:37.6	I'm Buster Only. Taylor Schwink is producing back in Bristol and Taylor.
0:41.8	Look, today on the podcast, we had Matt Hyde, who was the scout, who was the area scout
0:47.7	behind the drafting of Camp Schlittler and Ben Rice.
0:50.1	Think about the value of those two guys.
0:52.4	The Yankees draft Ben Rice in the 12th round.
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