Theme of the Winter: What Buster’s Hearing on Free Agency; Nationals President of Baseball Ops Paul Toboni Stops by

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss the free agency trend Buster is seeing as he talks to people around the league, which blockbuster trade Hembo wants to go down, and the most polarizing free agent on the market. Then, Buster talks to the Nationals’ new president of baseball operations Paul Toboni. Later, Alden Gonzalez and Jorge Castillo get into Kyle Tucker’s current market, why the Phillies must retain Kyle Schwarber, what the Orioles need to do next, and Toronto turning into a destination. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 4:11 Hembo 28:33 Nationals president of baseball ops Paul Toboni 44:11 Alden Gonzalez & Jorge Castillo 1:05:33 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there. Surprise.
0:02.0	30 for 30 presents Booya.
0:05.0	Can I get a witness from the congregation?
0:08.0	You can't stop authenticity.
0:10.0	Booya!
0:11.0	Stewart was exactly like you saw him on camera, off camera.
0:14.0	He dialed it up 10%.
0:16.0	Can you imagine the impact of young black boys and girls
0:19.0	looking at that going, I feel seen. He changed the culture.
0:22.6	He changed sports.
0:24.0	Buyah, presented by Madelo,
0:26.2	premieres on December 10th at 9 p.m. Eastern
0:28.5	on ESPN.
0:33.7	Way out of here.
0:36.0	This is baseball tonight, the podcast.
0:41.8	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:49.3	I'm Buster Only working for my home in Montana in the week ahead of the baseball winter meetings. Taylor
0:54.9	Schwink is working back in the Schwink studios in Connecticut. And Taylor, you're away for Thanksgiving
1:00.9	last week. You had fun. Indeed. I was visiting the motherland, Maryland. I was in Annapolis, staying
1:07.1	downtown, which was lovely. And you took the reins of the pod.
1:11.0	You did a short little fireside chat, which I thought was like super lovely and appropriate for the holiday.
1:17.0	Nice job by you, Buster.
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