Squirrelly: Red Sox's Walk Buehler on Choosing Boston & Closing the World Series; Jake Peavy's Top 3 Rotations; Hembo on the Most Obvious Rebuild Candidate

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Hembo and Buster discuss the Red trading for Gavin Lux, which team needs to sign Alex Bregman the most, which team is an obvious rebuild candidate, if the Mariners could sign Pete Alonso, and Chase Utley’s Hall of Fame case. Then, new Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Walker Buehler stops by to talk about his first time in free agency, landing in Boston, his rough 2024 season, when it came together in the playoffs for him, and what he was thinking before closing out the World Series. Later, Jake Peavy on his top three starting rotations, which teams need to sign Jack Flaherty, and his Hall of Fame-hopeful friends Billy Wagner and CC Sabathia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	way out of here this is baseball tonight the podcast this is the baseball tonight
0:13.3	podcast for tuesday january 7th 2025 i'm buster only i'm working from my home in
0:20.1	montana taylor schink is working from the
0:22.1	Swink studios back in Connecticut. And Taylor, I noticed, I mean, to pull our listeners behind
0:27.8	the scenes, you do a great job every day, sending me in notes about, you know, what we can,
0:34.5	what we might be talking about, a list of news items from the news desk at ESPN.
0:40.4	And there was this long list.
0:41.9	We're going to go through some of them.
0:43.0	There were about 10 different things before we talked to Walker Bueller, World Series Champion, just signed with the Boston Red Sox,
0:48.3	before we talked to Jake Peavy, before we talked to Paul Mbikides.
0:51.9	And it was going through all the notes, and I noticed there was one glaring omission from you,
0:56.7	one that you did not include.
0:58.7	Corbyn-Burned signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks
1:01.8	was not in those, that list of like 25 notes.
1:04.7	Oh, really?
1:05.0	It's like you as an Orioles fan, wanted to just block it out.
1:10.0	That's my, that must, that was my subconscious buster because I definitely, I should have
1:14.2	included that.
1:15.0	So the deep recesses of my brain still can't deal with the fact that, uh, that Corbyn Burns is
1:20.9	no longer a Baltimore Oriole.
1:22.0	And I should be dealing with it better because, uh, we had Jesse Rogers host the podcast
1:25.9	last night, talk to Tori Lavello about it.
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