Zone Remains the Same: Aaron Boone on the ABS System & How Judge Could Benefit; Braves Extend Chris Sale

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Braves extend Chris Sale, Buster drops his top-ten corner outfielders and which players stand to benefit from the ABS System? Hembo and Buster discuss. Plus, is Konnor Griffin a generational talent? Then, Yankees manager Aaron Boone stops by to talk about whether Aaron Judge’s size will benefit him with ABS, how he’s instructed his team to deal with the ABS System, if his interactions with umpires will change now that he has the ability to challenge balls and strikes, Gerrit Cole’s progression, and his assessment of the team’s offseason. Later, Buster previews the Sacramento Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. Finally, Buster answers your questions during Bleacher Tweets. WATCH THE SHOW ON YOUTUBE⁠ CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 0:00 Welcome! :47 Hembo 19:51 Yankees manager Aaron Boone 34:50 Headlines 36:01 Athletics preview 36:57 San Francisco Giants preview 38:16 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Premier League is exciting.
0:04.0	It's exhilarating.
0:07.0	And sometimes it's...
0:11.0	So when you need something to help you ride the highest and loads of all that action,
0:17.0	grab a Coke to keep you in the game.
0:20.0	Time to refresh.
0:21.8	Time for a Coke.
0:23.8	Coca-Cola, official partner of the Premier League.
0:31.7	Way out of here.
0:36.6	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:41.9	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, February 25th,
0:46.8	2006, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:50.4	I'm Buster Only, Taylor Shwink is working from the Shwink Studios,
0:53.7	and meanwhile,
0:54.5	Quinny, my dog, has taken this opportunity, just start barking like crazy. What's going on, Taylor? How do you deal with this with Dolly? Buster, you need a barricade your door better. But I guess the folks on YouTube, they might like to see the dogs now. So this is something we would just describe it before, but now we can, you know.
1:12.1	I knew it. She just came barging, but now we can, you know.
1:12.1	I knew it.
1:13.0	She just came barging in. Quinny, come on up here. Come on up. Come on up. Show the people at Homebuster. Let's see her. A star in the making here. We got a lot of stars on the show today. She definitely wants to be part of the show. Oh, yeah. Marking light crazy. All right. Let's get to the top of the first.
1:29.2	All right. With that, Paul Ambikides, of course, yeah. Barking like crazy. All right. Let's get to the top of the first. All right. That Paul Mbikidis, of course, a researcher at ESPN content producer on the show, Get Up. Hempbo, how you doing? Master, I'm doing okay. I have to admit, though, I've been snowbound in New York City for the last two days, and all that's left is this undershirt that I'm wearing. So this is actually the best I could do. Apologize to our YouTube crowd. We're making our big YouTube debut this week. And all I have for you is literally some long johns, which I'm wearing the last clean item of clothing in my entire bag. So I was imagining you shoveling, but you're not doing any shoveling because you're not at home, right? So my lovely wife sent me a picture yesterday of an entirely shovel driveway,
2:04.9	which I have to imagine was either passive aggressive or just aggressive because I'm here
2:09.3	snowbound in New York City.
2:10.9	She's none too happy, Buster, so I'm going to go home today and I'm sure feel that rat.
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