57 Results for bob kennedy

Rice swung and missed on Jeter

Buster Olney

On a Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, I happened across a YES Network broadcast of Yankee Ron Guidry's 18-strikeout game against the California Ang...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2009

The biggest holes for trades to fill

Buster Olney

With just one full day and a chunk of hours before the trade deadline, these are the biggest holes remaining for teams that have been looking for help...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 30, 2009

The Hall should preserve history, not dodge it

Buster Olney

The day after Bill Madden wrote a story saying commissioner Bud Selig was thinking seriously about reinstating Pete Rose, there is another story from ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 28, 2009

Can you believe in Whitesell?

Jason Grey, ESPN.com

Jason Grey digs deep into AL- and NL-only leagues and takes a closer look at Josh Whitesell, who was recently called up by the Diamondbacks.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | May 10, 2009

Braun's sensible deal

Milwaukee GM Doug Melvin bumped into Ryan Braun a few days ago, and although there were still some T's to be crossed and some I's to be dotted in the ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 16, 2008

Bowker's wild trip to the majors

As John Bowker rode into his first day in the major leagues Saturday, he kept doing a mental equipment check, double-checking in his mind that he had,...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 15, 2008

Potent offense will drive Yankees

...contribute quality innings, and they don't know if those will come from Mike Mussina or Ian Kennedy, or if they'll get them at all. But the offense should be the anchor for this...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | March 27, 2008

Not all big deals are bad deals

Some players in the game are forever viewed through the lens of their contract. As they are signed, the debate begins about whether they are worth the...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | March 09, 2008

Oakland believes in Barton

...look for in a young left-handed hitter, in the way pitchers work to them," said manager Bob Geren, before running through some of those things -- a left-handed pitcher's breaking ball over the...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | March 06, 2008

Friday Filberts

...of Fame, and that more (including the late Bob Howsam) should be in the Hall of Fame...fans have already been following Hughes and Ian Kennedy and the way Sox fans have been mooning...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | February 29, 2008

Mussina won't deliver big results

...year. But as Bob Klapisch writes, that's exactly what they're doing with Mike Mussina. Consider the math. The Yankees have three rookie starters, Joba Chamberlain, Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy, all on a...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | February 20, 2008

Rox ready to roll

...8226; Mike Mussina moved some locker assignments around so that he could have more access to Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes, Ed Price writes. I have heard that a number of pitchers in the Yankees...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | February 17, 2008

The market for Blanton

...made it clear he wants to hold onto the most developed Yankees prospects -- Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy -- and given the Yankees' exit from the Santana trade talks, that might seem to take them out...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | February 11, 2008

Santana in commanding position

I would love to be the agent for Johan Santana today. I would love to ever possess the kind of leverage that Peter Greenberg, Santana's longtime repre...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | January 30, 2008

Twins should just keep Santana

...are dying for a frontline pitcher like Santana, they might relent and give up Hughes and Ian Kennedy (depending on the development of other minor league pitchers). If the Red Sox were hit by injuries...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | January 16, 2008