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Chapman's next step

Jorge Arangure Jr.

...bars or late nights at home playing video games. The days were spent training in a local baseball stadium and its weight room. In about a month, the lithe Chapman -- who rarely ate beef while...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009

Sizing up the field at the Old Spice Classic

Fran Fraschilla

...his career. Creighton Christmas will come on December 25, the Yankees will have the highest payroll in baseball and the Creighton Bluejays will win 20 games again this season. These are all things you can...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Three Strikes: Award-winning edition

Jayson Stark

Strike One -- Albert's Eight-Ball Dept. As you contemplate the greatness of Albert Pujols, don't measure him just by the three MVP awards he's won. ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009

DeCesare starts anew in Chicago

Christopher Lawlor

It was all too familiar for Gary DeCesare Monday night. In many ways it was the same for DeCesare who officially returned to the high school game f...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Draft Lab: Evaluating Rolando McClain

KC Joyner, ESPN Insider

KC Joyner turns his scouting eye (and tape deck) to Crimson Tide LB Rolando McClain. He finds what many have found: off-the-charts physical gifts. However, there are two key concerns that could hinder McClain at the next level.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Ten things I learned: Stafford, Cutler, Maroney ...

Eric Karabell

I could have given you 30 guesses at picking who the top two fantasy football quarterbacks would have been in Week 11, and you wouldn't have gotten it...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009

Outtakes with O.J. Mayo

Kenny Mayne, ESPN The Magazine

Kenny Mayne chats with Grizzlies guard O.J. Mayo about NCAA regulations, shooting free throws underhand and taking in the sport of kings.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Edgar's HOF chances

Jorge Arangure Jr.

...easy to make both sides of the argument. Out of the four Hall of Fame metrics that baseball-reference.com uses as a measuring stick, Martinez is a Hall of Famer in two of them...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Three Strikes -- Mailbag edition

Jayson Stark

...few years ago -- some sort of payroll floor. The other sports have one. There's no reason baseball shouldn't. I don't care where baseball decides to set that minimum -- $40 million, $60 million...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Watching Brady, Eli, McCoy and Marshall

Eric Karabell

...me. Or, as I've said in the past mostly about unproven rookie starting pitchers in fantasy baseball, they haven't been given a chance to stink yet. Scott could be fine, but I'd...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Cash grab

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

During this winter's free agency and arbritration, good things won't come to those who wait.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Looking at CFB Week 12 point-spread moves

Chad Millman

...son of a wise guy who fell into linemaking because, "I didn't become a major league baseball player," he says, laughing. Kenny spent two years in the minors, one of them in an independent...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2009

San Juan tourney keeps getting better and better

Fran Fraschilla

The third year of the Puerto Rico Classic has produced a good, solid field with one top-10 team (Villanova), two more top-25 teams (Georgia Tech, Dayt...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2009