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The Cy Young cases for Greinke and King Felix

Buster Olney

This time of year, teams begin to include information in their media dispatches about their various candidates for major awards. The AL Cy Young Award...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2009

Desmond getting a chance

Jason Grey, ESPN.com

Jason Grey discusses what Ian Desmond needs to do to be successful at the big league level and highlights the best pickups of the week for those in deeper fantasy leagues.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | September 13, 2009

Why Greinke should win the Cy Young

Buster Olney

By the standards of a David Wells or Livan Hernandez or John Smoltz or Orlando Hernandez or Curt Schilling or Randy Johnson, Zack Greinke has yet to p...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 31, 2009

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

Hudson makes rehab debut

Kevin Goldstein, Baseball Prospectus

Kevin Goldstein notes that Tim Hudson's 2009 rehab debut was the highlight of the weekend in the minor leagues, while Brandon Morrow had much less encouraging results.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | July 20, 2009

The familiar angle on Houston's surge

Buster Olney

The Astros are 27-17 in their last 44 games, which is actually par for the course for Houston. Year after year, the Astros seem to start slowly and th...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 20, 2009

Brett Anderson finds another gear

A's pitcher Brett Anderson will glance at the ballpark radar gun after throwing off-speed pitches, using the readings to give him some sense of whethe...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 12, 2009

BP Daily: Let them play!

Jay Jaffe, Baseball Prospectus

Baseball Prospectus looks at deserving All-Stars who could get snubbed, including Adrian Gonzalez, Aaron Hill and a closer who had never saved a game before this season.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | July 02, 2009

Diagnostics a key to Colorado's surge

Aaron Cook is more of a country-and-western kind of guy, and as a result he didn't have a lot of input when the Rockies made their choices about what ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 15, 2009

Doubts about D-backs manager could linger

The Diamondbacks continue to lose game after game after game, and the timing could not be worse for new manager A.J. Hinch, who had his first confront...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 16, 2009

Did Manny parlay steroids into Dodgers deal?

Privately, the Dodgers are very angry with Manny Ramirez -- and I can imagine Frank McCourt's hitting the roof again when this story from Lance Pugmir...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 15, 2009

Longoria's stride reminiscent of another masher

You might watch Evan Longoria hit and have a bout of "Where have I seen that before?" syndrome. And maybe this is what you were thinking of: "Happy Gi...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 11, 2009

BP Daily: An AL reality check

Jay Jaffe, Baseball Prospectus

The Blue Jays are 18-10 and leading a division in which we projected three other teams to win 94 games. Says here it'll be hard for them to keep up their pace. The Royals and Mariners? That's another story.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | May 06, 2009

Gwynn has high praise for Strasburg

Early in the season, Tony Gwynn worked diligently to tamp down the hoopla around Stephen Strasburg, for the sake of his junior pitcher. But now, with ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 03, 2009

If You're Hardcore: Podsednik back, but not nearly as fast

Jason Grey, ESPN.com

Jason Grey digs deep into AL- and NL-only leagues and finds some potential diamonds, and he discusses whether to add Scott Podsednik.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | May 03, 2009