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Signing Mauer a percentage play
Buster Olney...that he is the winner of the AL Most Valuable Player Award. He and Albert Pujols are baseball's best hitters now, and in time, he might be regarded as the greatest catcher ever. He...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009
The Spawn of 'Moneyball'
Buster Olney...of college, against the kind of candidates we're seeing now, I probably wouldn't be in baseball." Call them the Spawn of "Moneyball." Rather than taking up residence on Wall Street or aspiring to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009
Hermida's move sure to be replicated
Buster OlneyThe latest seismic rumbling probably hit the baseball landscape early Thursday morning -- probably before all the...as the Yankees prepare for their championship parade today. No. 1: The Yankees have done a great...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009
A new chapter for Lee and Sabathia
Buster OlneyThe old friends pitched against each other in the first game ever at new Yankee Stadium back in April, and then afterward, CC Sabathia took Cliff Lee ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009
What to watch for in Game 6 of the ALCS
Buster Olney...And why not? Mariano Rivera has again reinforced his standing as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, tossing 8.2 scoreless innings in this postseason, striking out 10 batters. Rivera has now pitched...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 24, 2009
A-Rod's adjustments may be paying off
Buster Olney...the first-base line and Boras went out of the picture, and it was all about the baseball, as it really has been since Sports Illustrated reported in February that Rodriguez had tested positive for...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 21, 2009
Sabathia giving Yankees whatever they need
Buster Olney...athlete who was constantly catered to by adults from the time he demonstrated he could throw a baseball really hard. No, Margie sent her moping son home on his bike when he complained about an...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2009
How the Yankees can slow the Angels
Buster OlneyThe Yankees' internal conversation about how to slow down the Angels' running game in this postseason started a little while back -- before spring tra...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 16, 2009
Instant replay must be expanded … immediately
Buster Olney...start of the Dodgers-Cardinals game today, well, get it done. We've seen with the umpires' handling of home run calls that the system that Major League Baseball has put in place runs efficiently...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 10, 2009
Cleveland, Washington should consider Valentine
Buster Olney...much less power but much more subtle skills: Edgardo Alfonzo. And the Mets of 1997 stunned the baseball world by winning 88 games that year, an improvement of 17 victories, and damn near made the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 04, 2009
A "Major League" move by the Padres
Buster OlneyIf you're looking for a CliffsNotes version of what has happened in San Diego, just flip on the movie "Major League." To review the events of the pas...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 03, 2009
Type A positive
Buster Olney...Cruz found themselves boxed into a maze of baseball rules and regulations last winter, walled in by...up its draft pick in compensation. As of today, there are a little more than two dozen...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 02, 2009
A slimmer Kung Fu Panda is needed
Buster Olney...hitter, now and as they look into the future, because of his unique ability to hit a baseball squarely. "Initially, guys were comparing him with [Manny] Sanguillen, because he can hit bad pitches," Krukow said...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 27, 2009
Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars
Buster OlneyIt is still September and nine days of regular-season baseball remain, but the playoffs provided the context for everything that occurred at Yankee Stadium on Friday night...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 2009
Duensing among unlikely September stars
Buster OlneyThe crises come daily in the pennant races, and all the stuff that really matters at the outset of spring training -- pedigree, salary, past statistic...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2009
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