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Breaking down market moves and chatter
Buster OlneyLet's pick through some recent developments in the market … Item A: The Phillies know Placido Polanco from his days with the team earlier this...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 04, 2009
The Yankees' case for Halladay
Buster OlneyThe Yankees, Mets and Red Sox have spent more money in free agency over the past decade than any other teams, as ESPN's esteemed Mark Simon notes: Bi...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2009
Roberto Alomar's brilliance still on display
Buster Olney...a chance to witness the brilliance of Roberto Alomar just about every night on a major league baseball field, when infielders make plays that Alomar all but invented and popularized. A shortstop, like John McDonald...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 02, 2009
Cameron centered on the playoffs
Buster Olney...center fielders, playing well at a time when other center fielders his age are watching Major League Baseball from a couch. "I feel like I can still play one of the better center fields in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 01, 2009
Running with Bob Sheppard
Buster OlneyBob Sheppard, the longtime public address announcer for the Yankees, is stepping away from the microphone for good. I hope he enjoys whatever he deci...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 28, 2009
Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)
Buster Olney...to late December or early January this year. So it feels like a side-dish buffet of baseball information these days, with the big turkeys still to come. Some smaller servings collected: When Roy Oswalt...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009
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
Cash grab
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineDuring this winter's free agency and arbritration, good things won't come to those who wait.
Story | Conversation | November 20, 2009
The free agent do-call list
Buster OlneyThe free-agent signing period begins four days from now, and we know that Matt Holliday, John Lackey and Jason Bay are going to be paid the most money...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 2009
New-Bourn: Astros center fielder on the rise
Buster Olney...a childhood friend of Carl Crawford, and as Little Leaguers they had chatted about playing major league baseball, about playing in the World Series. They shared that dream, and an ambitious work ethic. In the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 14, 2009
The significance of the Mauer market
Buster Olney...negotiations with the Twins play out in the months ahead -- and really, in the big picture for baseball, this might be the sport's most important storyline, considering all the current concern about the state...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009
The (harsh) lessons of the GM meetings
Buster OlneyExecutives and agents packed their bags and boarded planes in Chicago, thinking about what they had seen and heard over the previous 48 hours, such as...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 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
Cashman casts praise far and wide
Buster Olney...dispensed in the suite of general manager Brian Cashman. There were about 20 members of the Yankees' baseball operations team in the room, including amateur scouting director Damon Oppenheimer and professional scouting director Billy Eppler...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 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 champagne-soaked Yankees reached their homes -- with more rumors...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009
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