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We closed another fine week of Baseball Today podcasts with Friday's episode, in which Mark Simon and I discussed interesting Thursday performances, previewed the weekend and much more! The Texas Rangers don't look like playoff locks anymore, whi...

SweetSpot blogger Dave Schoenfield and I gathered for Monday's Baseball Today podcast with our big top-10 lists of best teams and much more! 1. Seattle Mariners announcer Dave Sims talked about the Mariners, whether Ichiro will be in a Mariners un...

We already ranked the best starting rotations and best bullpens in Major League Baseball. Today is Part III of our look ahead to 2012: the best infields for overall production -- offense and defense. 1. Texas Rangers There were moments dur...

Blog | December 29, 2011

After ranking the 10 best rotations and bullpens in Major League Baseball, Buster Olney continues his look ahead to 2012 and tackles the best infields in the game based on offensive and defensive production.

Blog | Conversation | December 29, 2011

What a World Series so far! For Friday's Baseball Today podcast Mark Simon and me gathered to talk about how Game 2 was really won and many other pertinent matters surrounding the best sport. 1. Oh, those silly managers! Someone finally got to St....

It's Final Four time in the greatest sport and Mark Simon and me discussed the good, bad and of course ugly as we started the week with Monday's Baseball Today podcast! 1. The Texas Rangers and their awesome bullpen got the jump on the battered De...

Eric Karabell brought this up on the Baseball Today podcast. It's almost a certainty that the Texas Rangers will finish with a better record than the Detroit Tigers (or whichever team wins the AL Central). So that means the AL East winner would play ...

Here are five reasons why you really should be listening to Wednesday's Baseball Today podcast , with myself and Keith Law. And really, why aren't you listening every day? You are? OK, good! 1. ESPNNewYork.com writer and author Ian O'Connor stops...

Thirty or forty years ago, great outfielders dominated the game. Today, only a handful even rank among the top 20 players.

Buster is bouncing around baseball today, but he starts in Philadelphia, where a fan who ran onto the field met the painful end of a Taser. So Buster asks his readers, just what should we do when a fan runs onto the field?

Blog | Conversation | May 04, 2010

Three of the four best teams in baseball today appear to be in the American League East, and all spring I asked talent evaluators, executives, scouts and players to do my job for me and pick the two playoff teams from the Yankees, Red Sox and Rays. ...

Blog | March 28, 2010

Buster talked to talent evaluators, executives, scouts and players before deciding on this predictions for the season.

Blog | Conversation | March 28, 2010

Breaking down some of the biggest issues baseball faces today: Issue at hand: Mike Trout gets $510,000 in his 2013 contract with the Angels. Explication: Years ago, there was a tradeoff in collective bargaining between the union and Major League Ba...

Blog | March 03, 2013

Buster Olney examines some of baseball's biggest issues, including Mike Trout's contract dispute and Bud Selig calling for tougher steroid penalties.

Blog | Conversation | March 03, 2013

The Texas Rangers announced today the promotions of general manager Jon Daniels to president of baseball operations/general manager and the promotion of chief operating officer Rick George to president of business operations. In their respective r...

Dan Szymborski looks at the most statistically divisive players in MLB, and tells us which metric is "right."

Story | Conversation | February 18, 2013