We Can All Relax: 2022 Trade Deadline Special

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Buster, Tim Kurkjian and Jeff Passan convene in Bristol to look back at a wild trade deadline. They discuss the Padres’ big move for Juan Soto, A.J. Preller sending it, which teams got better late, the weird dynamic with the Cubs and Wilson Contreras, the disconnect in Boston, the Orioles sticking to the plan, the improved Astros and the Reds’ suddenly restocked farm system. Later, Sarah Langs muses about San Diego’s lineup, plays The Numbers Game with notes on the Soto trade and shares if she’s bitter the Mets didn’t go big. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Baseball Tonight, The Podcast.
0:11.8	And this is a special edition of the Baseball Tonight Podcast.
0:15.2	We are taping this just an hour.
0:17.4	So after the trade deadline and the evening of August 2nd, we got Jeff Passon here.
0:22.3	We got Tim Kirkchin here.
0:23.9	Umbuster only, Sarah Abbott, Taylor Schwank, are also in the room.
0:27.8	First thing with us, good to see you guys in person for the first time ever.
0:30.9	In real life, it's a pleasure boys.
0:33.3	Very nice.
0:34.3	Well we got a lot to get to and now Tim, you have a long drive.
0:37.5	Jeff, you've been working harder than anybody.
0:39.4	You gotta be exhausted at some point.
0:41.1	So be ready to go.
0:42.6	I'm just glad that I don't have to wear makeup to not look tired.
0:46.8	Like I walk in before we go on TV and they say, what do you need?
0:53.3	I'm like, I just need to not look tired, please.
0:56.0	Well, just wait a few more years and they won't be able to do anything about that.
1:00.1	We always do the winners and losers at the trade deadline.
1:04.6	The biggest winner is Passon because the deadline is over.
1:08.0	Buster too.
1:09.0	Slightly lesser degree you.
1:11.3	We can all relax a tiny bit now.
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