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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Unanimous: Albert Pujols Stops By; Adley Rutschman Has Something to Prove; Budding Braves Star

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols joins the podcast! But first, Hembo and Buster talk about the Cardinals’ Jordan Walker, if Konnor Griffin is better than advertised, the Orioles’ Adley Rutschman having something to prove, budding Braves star Drake Baldwin, which pitcher that’s been hurt the most by ABS, and Hembo’s three favorite Pujols stats. Then, the Machine joins the show to discuss which numbers from his career he’s most proud of, his reverence for the Hall of Fame, his idea for the World Baseball Classic semifinals, and what he sees in Shohei Ohtani’s swing. Later, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game. Finally, Buster answers yours questions during Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 Hembo 2:38 Cardinals Jordan Walker 4:26 Pirates Konnor Griffin 7:24 Orioles Adley Rutschman 9:53 Braves Drake Baldwin 12:54 Pitcher most impacted by ABS 16:55 Hembo’s 3 favorite Pujols stats 18:32 Albert Pujols 19:30 Important career numbers 21:47 Unanimous selection important? 23:53 Reverence for the HOF 28:07 ABS thoughts 33:39 WBC changes 38:48 You Played, I Didn’t: Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Junior Caminero 45:03 Sarah Langs 47:25 Bleacher Tweets CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS Follow The Baseball Tonight Podcast on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeL6O-A-ASmSMwbSCFvPKEq1Cslo_lrw Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FG6xCcd338SgZjZ9urHRI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-tonight-with-buster-olney/id137699414 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

What are you in a lot?

0:07.0

Did you say someone got to stop?

0:09.0

Brian Patta, senior defensive lineman from Miami, gunned down.

0:14.0

The key to this case, it's Brian.

0:17.0

Boy, he's breath there.

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. Listen now.

0:32.6

This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, April 10th, 2006, and today will be better than yesterday.

0:39.8

I'm Buster Only. Taylor Schwink is working from ESPN today. And Taylor, we teased it in the last

0:46.3

podcast. We got a Hall of Famer coming on today. A future Hall of Famer, Albert Pools,

0:50.5

in my introduction, I'm going to do for him, he should be unanimous selection for the Hall of Fame, yes? No doubt. No doubt. We're going to put it on the topic bar. I love him we can load up the topic bar with accolades. And Albert Poole Hulse, he might be the most legendary player we've had on the podcast, I think. Yeah. And he, I'm really curious to think he, to see what he thinks about the ABS. I'm going to ask

1:12.8

him about particular swings, what he sees the mechanics of guys like Aaron Judge, and ask about his

1:19.2

WBC experience, because that was amazing, and ask him when he thinks the WBC should be played. But first,

1:25.5

we'll talk to Paul Mbikidis, of course, a content producer in the show

1:29.2

Get Up. Hembo, how you doing?

1:30.6

Buster, I'm good, although I am recovering still. My wife spent all of last weekend in Indianapolis

1:35.6

for the Final Four. She, of course, being a production manager at ESPN, which meant that I was

1:40.5

sort of forced to fend for myself with three girls under the age of four with a lot of

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