The Word Is: Complicated

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

David Schoenfield and Buster discuss how Jacob deGrom landed with the Rangers, the Brewers trading Kolten Wong to the Mariners for Jesse Winker and Abraham Toro, Brian Reynolds demanding a trade, what kind of push are .500 teams willing to make in free agency, the ever-changing game of musical shortstops, Fred McGriff heading to the Hall of Fame, and another mess with selection for the Hall. Then, Sarah Langs on how the Hall created a more difficult ballot for its new committee, Aaron Judge looking for a nine-year contract in his age 31 season, projecting Trea Turner’s legs and deGrom’s sub-.190 opponent batting average. 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 Monday, December 5, 2022, and today will be better
0:18.0	than yesterday.
0:19.0	Producing from the pulpit is the Revrim Taylor Schlink.
0:23.0	Working from the hanger is Sarah Abbott, how are you guys doing today?
0:26.4	Lovely, Buster, great weekend.
0:28.0	How are you doing?
0:29.0	I'm doing okay, Sarah.
0:30.0	I'm just living my best life, so I'm doing great.
0:34.0	Nice.
0:35.0	I am Buster only, and I am in my home in Montana.
0:39.2	There's all kinds of conversation.
0:41.2	It feels like across the country in baseball today because of the signings, the deals, the
0:46.5	speculations going on.
0:48.4	Winter meetings have started, but the deals started before the winter meetings.
0:52.9	On Friday, we got word Jacobic Ram.
0:54.9	Five years, $185 million with the Texas Rangers.
0:59.4	There's so much interesting backstory to all this.
1:02.2	We're going to be talking about that with Dave Schoenfield.
1:04.9	Chris Martin, reliever, who pits really great for the Dodgers, got two years and 17 half
1:09.8	million dollars to some of the Boston Red Sox.
1:12.8	The Milwaukee Brewers traded Colton Wong to the Seattle Mariners Jesse Winker going to
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