Zach Wheeler and Matt Chapman Signing Deals, PLUS the San Diego Padres and Houston Astros Team Previews

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this latest episode of Baseball Tonight, Buster Olney and ESPN.com Senior Writer David Schoenfield. react to the big news of Zack Wheeler signing a record-setting extension with the Philadelphia Phillies, Matt Chapman and the San Francisco Giants' agreement on a $54 million deal, Ronald Acuna Jr.'s injured knee and the Boston Red Sox's Vaughn Grissom's absence on opening day. Sarah Langs, also joins the show to play the numbers game, and then Anthony Gwynn Jr., radio and VT analyst for the San Diego Padres, jumps on with Buster to preview that team. Next, Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, shares some amazing stories about Ryan Howard, Satchel Paige, Willie Mays and MLB The Show 24. Finally, Steve Sparks, color commentator for the Houston Astros steps in to fill you in on everything you need to know about that team before the season gets in full swing. Leave Buster a message by calling 406-404-8460 0:00 - MLB Latest News 4:00 - David Schoenfield 16:10 - Sarah Langs 25:15 - San Diego Padres Team Preview 33:55 - Bob Kendrick 55:28 - Houston Astros Team Preview 01:04:43 - Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:07.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:13.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:12.0	This is a baseball tonight podcast for Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 and today will be
0:19.7	better than yesterday on Boster only. I'm down in Florida. We are preparing for an exhibition
0:25.3	broadcast we have of a game between the Yankees and Mets. John Bartley is in
0:29.5	California and John I apologize for the way that our Sunday played out.
0:34.3	We were actually going to tape a podcast on Sunday evening to be published on Monday morning,
0:38.5	but it was one of those days where you have de-icing and delays and extra connections and you know I left my home at 4 a.m. and I
0:46.2	want to check him in the hotel at about 10 30 last night so all those
0:50.1	plans were blown up for this week and I apologize because you were kind of, you know, like a flag whipping in the wind of all that crap.
0:58.0	Oh man, busser, it is perfectly fun, man. I'm just glad that you made it to Florida, okay, in one shape, you know?
1:05.0	Yeah, and so the way that's going to affect our schedule, we talked about, I mentioned, we have an exhibition
1:09.6	broadcast on Tuesday, and then we have another one on Thursday and so this week our
1:15.4	podcast schedule is such that we're going to publish on Tuesday and then we're
1:19.1	going to have another one on Thursday and another one on Friday.
1:22.9	And I tease before, we're going to get Albert Pools.
1:25.6	We're scheduled to get them on Wednesday night.
1:27.3	And that'll be for the podcast on Thursday morning.
1:30.0	Yeah, Sean?
1:31.0	Absolutely, man.
1:32.0	I'm really looking forward to that Albert show.
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