The Manny Effect
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineThe use of banned substances by one player impacts many others. Would Manny even be in L.A. today minus steroids? Would the Cubs be world champs?
Story | Conversation | May 19, 2009Some 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
Deion Sanders' thoughts still heard years later
Buster OlneyLost in the fog of the A-Rod-palooza, I forgot a sacred blog tradition -- to kick off spring training by revisiting a story from many years ago. I do...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 22, 2009
BRANDON WEBB IS BUSY RESTING
Buster OlneyThe game's winningest pitcher let us trail him for a week. Turns out, life is pretty good when you've got five dogs, three pitches and a catcher to do your worrying for you.
Story | Conversation | July 02, 2008Defense highlights offseason moves
Buster OlneyCoco Crisp is nearing a deal with the Oakland Athletics, according to late word from MLB Trade Rumors' Tim Dierkes. Presumably Crisp will slot into Oa...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 20, 2009
Post-winter meetings questions
Buster OlneyThe most prominent unresolved questions coming out of the winter meetings: 1. Where will Roy Halladay be traded? Halladay We talk all the time...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 12, 2009
Starters with same agents could push prices
Buster OlneyChone Figgins is generally regarded as the third-best position player on the market, behind Matt Holliday and Jason Bay, and the fact that he is signi...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 05, 2009
Orioles' pieces starting to fall in place
Buster Olney...Feliz PHI Chone Figgins LAA (A) Troy Glaus STL (B) Jerry Hairston Jr. NYY Mike Lamb MIL Melvin Mora BAL (B) Juan Uribe SF 2. Miguel Tejada played four seasons for the Orioles, averaging about...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 26, 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
Cashman casts praise far and wide
Buster OlneyAs the Yankees' players hopped happily in the middle of the infield late Wednesday, in the first moments after winning the World Series, plastic glass...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2009
The leftovers tell us a lot from Game 2
Buster OlneyIt has been a World Series of pitching so far, with the inevitable umpiring controversy sprinkled in. Some leftovers from Game 2: Mariano Rivera is ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 30, 2009
What to watch for in Game 6 of the ALCS
Buster OlneyEight factors that, among others, will shape Game 6: Chamberlain Hughes 1. The Yankees' set-up men. Phil Hughes was one of the best r...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 24, 2009
Replay for the World Series could work
Buster OlneyDon Denkinger, an umpire who had one of the most famous blown calls in history, tells Bob Klapisch: It's time to go to replay. Here's the thing: Eventually, expanded use of replay...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 22, 2009
Sabathia giving Yankees whatever they need
Buster OlneyMargie Sabathia flew into New York the other day, and if she and her son held to family tradition late Friday night, they probably spent 15 or 20 minu...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2009
The Tigers must address Cabrera
Buster OlneyPolice reportedly don't know everything that took place inside Miguel Cabrera's home Saturday morning because neither the Tigers' first baseman nor hi...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 08, 2009
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