Trust Your Belly: Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto; Cubs GM Carter Hawkins; Hembo on Roki Sasaki; Jesse Rogers on Free Agent Landing Spots

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss why Roki Sasaki will be baseball’s biggest bargain, why Boston is the best place for Juan Soto to play, Christian Walker flying under the radar, Dick Allen’s air-tight Hall of Fame case, and banging the drum for Ichiro Suzuki’s unanimously being elected to the Hall of Fame. Then, Seattle Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto stops by to talk about becoming a first-time grandfather, improving the infield, avoiding a slow start for Julio Rodriguez, and GM scouting reports on A.J. Preller and Dave Dombrowski. Next, Chicago Cubs GM Carter Hawkins chats with Buster about meeting with agents during free agency, the focus of the Cubs offseason and the improvement of Pete Crow-Armstrong. Later, Jesse Rogers on the Yankees potentially matching any offer to Soto, which teams are interested in trading for Garrett Crochet, the Phillies possibly being aggressive this offseason, Corbin Burnes, the Blue Jays looking for lineup balance, and the Cardinals moving Wilson Contreras to 1B. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 5:01 Hembo 17:32 Seattle Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto 31:50 Chicago Cubs GM Carter Hawkins 43:14 Jesse Rogers 1:00:54 Bleacher Tweets 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
0:13.1	podcast for friday november 15th 2004 and today will be better than yesterday
0:19.2	taylor shwink is working from the Shwink Studios back in
0:21.7	Connecticut. I'm Buster only working from my home in Montana until we have a act show today.
0:26.8	Loaded Buster. You know, you were on a heater in the postseason in terms of booking and the streak
0:32.2	doesn't stop, man. It continues over. Why don't you tell him who we have on today? Yeah, Carter
0:35.8	Hawkins, General Manager at Chicago Cubs, Jerry DePoto, head of baseball operations for the Seattle Mariners.
0:41.1	Plus, we're going to hear from Hembo. He's going to jump in and talk about the Hall of Fame
0:46.1	ballot coming up, which is going to be a lot of fun and how he would make a pitch to Juan Soto
0:50.8	if he's the Boston Red Sox. And we're also going to hear from Jesse Rogers doing rapid fire.
0:56.1	A bunch of players' names, a bunch of teams. We'll talk about what's to come. But first, we got to start with the news and notes.
1:01.5	And I'm going to move through these quickly. The biggest pitching name of this offseason emerged in the marketplace over the weekend when the team, the Marines from Japan, announced
1:13.2	the Roki Suzuki is going to be posted, which makes him available for bidding for all 30 teams.
1:20.1	Now, the process, it's too hard to get into in the weeds here.
1:23.7	Bottom line is, he's not going to have a big free agent contract.
1:27.0	He's going to come in a very affordable deal the way Shohei Otani did at the beginning.
1:31.0	So all 30 teams, in theory, have a shot.
1:34.0	I can tell you that just about everybody believes going to wind up with Los Angeles Dodgers.
1:38.1	We'll see how that goes.
1:39.2	The Miami Marlins hired Clay McCullough as their manager.
1:42.6	Padres gave manager Mike Schilt a two-year extension.
1:46.8	Aaron Boone's option for 2025 has been picked up. He talked to reporters about that.
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