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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hembo joins the show to discuss Cristopher Sanchez's historic month, a superstar the Red Sox should trade for, Michael Harris II's incredible improvement, Ben Rice's breakout, Bobby Witt Jr.'s obscurity, and how ABS has dramatically helped left-handed hitters. Blue Jays broadcaster Dan Shulman then stops by to discuss all things Toronto and how the Blue Jays finally have light at the end of the tunnel. Him and Buster then get into a discussion for a manager that is replacing Aaron Boone as most fiery in MLB. Sarah Langs takes us through some amazing pitching stats and we end with Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 Intro 0:52 Hembo joins, Cristopher Sanchez is incredible 3:53 Red Sox to trade for Bo Bichette?! 7:05 Tigers not taking calls on Tarik Skubal 12:10 Michael Harris II's remarkable improvement 14:52 Ben Rice is a Yankees star 17:27 Bobby Witt Jr. is turning into the next Mike Trout 19:54 Left-handed hitters are raking 23:54 Blue Jays injuries with Dan Shulman 26:11 The reason for hope in Toronto 28:14 Vladimir Guerrero Jr's power dip 31:13 Louis Varland is the real MVP 33:12 Blue Jays Trade Outlook 36:22 The new fieriest manager in MLB 41:22 Sarah Langs numbers game 43:10 Bleacher Tweets: Roberto Clemente, pitching stats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention all passengers.
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0:10.0	Your ride comes with six toilets and a refreshments carriage that you'll empty within five minutes.
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0:20.0	Trains on Uber.
0:23.4	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, June 5th,
0:27.1	2020,
0:29.4	presented by Lakeinta by Wyndham.
0:32.0	I'm Buster-only working from my home in Montana.
0:34.4	Kenny Leagan is producing back in Connecticut.
0:37.6	Today, a great podcast ahead.
0:39.9	We're going to be talking with Paul Embikidis about some trade stuff.
0:43.2	What we're hearing about the Boston Red Sox,
0:45.4	their search for a right-handed hitter.
0:47.3	What we're hearing about Terek Scoobal,
0:49.3	potentially in the market.
0:50.3	And Hembo has some great numbers about the incredible success this year of left-handed hitters.
0:56.6	Sarah Langs will be here with the numbers game and we'll be talking with longtime play-by-playman
1:01.2	for the Toronto Blue Jays, Dan Shulman about that team, their struggles, and he's got some funny
1:07.8	stories about some managers who get ejected a lot. Let's get to it. Paul Makedes is a researcher at ESPN. He's a content producer on the show, Get Up, and he joins us here every week on the podcast. Humbow, how are you doing? Well, so I'm doing well. And as a Phillies fan, I got to see yesterday, something that I rarely see. I saw Christopher Sanchez allow a run,
1:28.7	like Haley's comic. Once in a while, someone will just touch home plate when he pitches.
1:32.5	But in all seriousness, I thought that the month of May was about as well pitched a month
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