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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

The List: ESPN's Top-100 MLB Players Drops; Top Player Draft; MLB Official on ABS Challenge System

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

ESPN released its 2026 Top-100 ranking of MLB players, and somehow Shohei Ohtani wasn’t the unanimous No. 1 pick? Buster, Jesse Rogers and ESPN.com MLB editor Liz Finny share their reactions to the top-100 list, including Mike Trout’s absence. Then, the gang drafts their top players in the league, and things go sideways at pick No. 2. Next, Buster and Jesse discuss injuries to Jeremy Peña and Hunter Greene, Jesse’s reporting on Team USA and the World Baseball Classic, and how MLB should handle contracts of players testing positive for PEDs. Then, MLB VP of On-Field Strategy Joe Martinez stops by to talk about how the ABS Challenge System is working so far to start Spring Training. Later, Buster answers your questions during Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 Rank 2026: ESPN's Top-100 MLB Players 8:06 Drafting the best players in MLB 14:30 Jesse Rogers on Team USA 21:11 MLB VP of On-Field Strategy Joe Martinez on ABS Challenges 31:48 Bleacher Tweets CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 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

The 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.

0:33.1

This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, March 6, 2026.

0:37.9

And today will be better than yesterday.

0:40.3

I'm Buster Only working from my hotel down in Miami.

0:43.6

Taylor Schwink is back in ESPN.

0:46.0

And Taylor, how you doing?

0:48.5

Buster, I'm well.

0:49.6

I'm off camera right now because we've got new friends here on the show.

0:53.4

We've got a big piece to discuss. It's the baseball world I'm very excited that would be the unveiling of

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