Movers and shakers in Philly
...time on the penalty kill and he got the occasional shift with minor league call-ups Ben Eager and Triston Grant. Umberger also jumped in with Richards and Calder for the odd shift. Stevens...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2006
How Wagner shifted the market
Buster OlneySometime Tuesday morning, the reality of Billy Wagner's circumstances broadsided him. Regardless of whether he stayed with the Mets or not, Wagner alm...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2009
Schafer's big day encouraging for Atlanta
Buster OlneyThe Braves took batting practice Saturday, and then Bobby Cox summoned Jordan Schafer into his office. The last two weeks had been an anxious time f...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009
Friday Mailbag
Bruce Feldman...how impressed he has been with the knowledge of the new staff and said he is really eager for his senior season. Incidentally, Villanueva says that even though Minnesota and Boston College pursued him to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 03, 2009
Coaches with strong records
Bruce Feldman...2.) In many cases they've inherited situations with programs that have the talent base but are eager for a change in direction. (Some players initially will respond better to a hard-line staff. Others...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 25, 2009
Some young arms could crack A's rotation
Buster OlneyWhen spring training began, the odds of Brett Anderson and/or Trevor Cahill and/or Vin Mazzaro being part of the Oakland Athletics' rotation on April ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 11, 2009
Somebody take responsibility already
Buster OlneyAn official who has been in baseball a long time sounded really tired Wednesday morning. He was really down. He had a serious case of the Steroids Era...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 12, 2009
How will the Rays use their not-so-secret weapon?
All of the Durham Bulls are scoreboard watching these days, David Price said over the phone on Friday afternoon. Their big-league affiliate, the Tampa...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2008
Saving Sabathia's bullets
I clicked over to the Brewers' game late in their victory on Monday night and saw that CC Sabathia was coming to bat in the bottom of the eighth innin...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 19, 2008
October atmosphere in Milwaukee
It's hard to know for sure whether the players were responding to the fans or the fans were responding to the players, or if everybody inside Miller P...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 29, 2008
Dickerson happy in New Orleans
...8226; UCLA coach Ben Howland is pleased with Kevin Love and practice hasn't even started. He said Love is on campus, working out and taking care of his business, eager to get going...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 18, 2007
Benitez, Weeks, Giambi, etc.
...knees, and time on the bench is probably the best way to heal them. The Giants, desperately eager to unload their erratic, malcontent closer, are actually paying $4.7 million of Benitez's $5 million...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 01, 2007
Philly flip-flop
Houston general manager Tim Purpura is feeling optimistic about his chances for signing Carlos Lee, reports Jesus Ortiz, after his latest bargaining s...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2006
Ravens in control of division
Observations from around the AFC North: Baltimore I had the Baltimore Ravens pegged as the third-best team in the AFC North for much of this season...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2006
Krivsky's deals paying off
Wayne Krivsky has been on the job as Reds' general manager less than three months, and yet he's already made two trades that have manifested themselve...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 29, 2006
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