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Three Strikes -- Mailbag edition

Jayson Stark

...these as I can, I'm starting something today I hope to make a regular feature of...other sports have one. There's no reason baseball shouldn't. I don't care where baseball...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Those who favored King Felix and Verlander

Keith Law

The AL Cy Young Award went more or less as expected, with the very deserving Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals running away with it, nabbing 25 o...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2009

Lackey's and Bay's markets emerge

Keith Law

...low-end annual baseball operations budget. And hard-slotting wouldn't have kept the Pirates from taking Danny Moskos over Jason Heyward. Joe Posnanski -- for my money the best sports writer today, even if he...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009

Three Strikes -- Deadlines and dollars edition

Jayson Stark

...haven't seen anywhere -- Most Dollars Spent in the Aughts (via the USA Today Salary Database and the Biz of Baseball Web site). And here's what we found: The Yankees paid out more...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2009

Stock Watch: Orton, Charles headed south

Eric Karabell

...time on their fantasy basketball teams or with baseball keeper trades. Hey, more power to you, but...still pick Adrian Peterson first overall if drafting today, but certainly there would be some debate about...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2009

News and notes from Latin baseball

Jorge Arangure Jr.

While baseball fans, players and officials debated the merits of the increased presence of instant replay during Major League...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009

Trading for now and 2010, Week 9 decisions

Eric Karabell

...carcass clean, deals that you know will make a difference in 2010, you have to consider them. Today, I advised one owner and his 3-5 team to absolutely keep Chris Johnson, not move him...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009

Talking Heisman, Tate, Moore and Armanti

Bruce Feldman

...this case. That's why I don't think such a sabermetric approach -- that can work in baseball -- translates very well to football. Football can be pretty murky. Few people know what the actual assignments...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009

Hermida's move sure to be replicated

Buster Olney

The 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009

A new chapter for Lee and Sabathia

Buster Olney

The 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 ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009

Weather has its World Series moments

Rob Neyer, ESPN.com

With the World Series being played in the Northeast and extending into November, Rob Neyer looks back at years when the weather was a factor.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | October 26, 2009