A chip-cashing trade
Buster OlneyThe trade will include big names and first-round picks when it is finally completed. Curtis Granderson is an All-Star with some major numbers and a su...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 09, 2009
For one night, Ordonez worth the cost
Buster OlneyIt's too bad there isn't a transcript of the conversation that took place sometime this summer between Detroit Tigers owner Mike Ilitch and his baseba...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 30, 2009
The overlooked stars of the season
Buster Olney...division and into the national conversation. Similarly, Mark Reynolds of the Diamondbacks has mashed so many monstrous...as the PTNL in the Khalil Greene deal." Andrew Bailey, Oakland Athletics. OK, he hasn't flown...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 14, 2009
How Wagner shifted the market
Buster Olney...Joakim Soria), Seattle (David Aardsma, who has been solid), the Angels (Brian Fuentes), Texas (Frank Francisco), Oakland (Andrew Bailey or Joey Devine, both affordable). Here are the teams that might not have a set closer...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2009
Baseball's week of U-turns
Buster OlneyThe baseball world has been a place of a lot of U-turns lately: If you pegged the Nationals for fewer than 40 victories in your office pool, well, yo...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009
Father-son Fourth; Chapman evaluation
Buster OlneyThe little big man of the house is 5 years old now, and he loves baseball -- all parts of it. He loves the hitting and the pitching, naturally, but he...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 05, 2009
Sorting through the AL scheduling
Buster OlneyTen notables from the American League schedule: 1. The Indians are looking at a meat grinder early in the year: In the first two months and one day o...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 02, 2009
Rays see room for improvement
Buster OlneyPORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Three thousand fans, many of them wearing Rays T-shirts or caps or jerseys, took advantage of the open house at the team's new...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 24, 2009
Abreu, others, might soon swallow pride
Buster OlneyAs recently as a week ago, the asking price on Bobby Abreu was said to be locked in place, a three-year deal for something in the neighborhood of $16 ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 28, 2009
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