The Windup: A show about Baseball

Updated: 05 Dec 2025 • 861 episodes
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The Athletic's flagship baseball podcast features some of the best writers and thinkers in the game. With rumors, analytics, trivia, prospects, rankings and big name interviews, we've got you covered from Spring Training through the World Series. MONDAY: Starkville with Jayson Stark & Doug Glanville | WEDNESDAY: The Roundtable with Grant Brisbee, Andy McCullough and friends Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to The Roundtable! Grant, Andy and Sam are here to talk about all the big MLB news and stories. The guys preview the upcoming MLB Winter Meetings that take place in Orlando, Florida next week. Also, they talk about how some of the early signings are very interesting, why the Giants are acting poor and free agen

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Starkville | The Athletic's Will Sammon and Matt Gelb join us this week in Stakville to talk about an interesting NL East Free Agency and Offseason. Will talk about about a busy start for the Mets with a few signings and a trade. Matt talks about how the Phillies are waiting to sign some of their own free agents before

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vWelcome to The Roundtable! Grant, Andy and Sam are here to talk about all the big MLB news and stories. The guys give their thoughts on the Blue Jays giving big money to Dylan Cease and if they overpaid. Also, they talk about how some small market teams claiming that they are going to spend money this Free Agency. -Fo

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Welcome to The Roundtable! Grant, Andy and Sam are here to talk about all the big MLB news and stories. The guys talk about how baseball has changed over the past 10 years. Also, Andy gives his thoughts on the GM meetings and the State of Boras press conference. -Follow Grant on X/Twitter: @GrantBrisbee -Follow Andy on

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Starkville | Dodgers President Stan Kasten joins us this week in Starkville. He talks about the Dodgers winning back-to-back titles, how it still hasn’t sunk in yet, if they bought a World Series, if anything Ohtani does surprises him anymore, what might the team look like next season and much much more. The Dougout: D

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Welcome to The Roundtable! Grant, Andy and Sam are here to talk about all the big MLB news and stories. Andy is on assignment this episode. The guys talk about the big news story from the weekend of Clase & Ortiz getting indicted in a pitch rigging scheme and if they think this has been happening in the MLB for awhile.

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