The Cy Young cases for Greinke and King Felix
Buster OlneyThis time of year, teams begin to include information in their media dispatches about their various candidates for major awards. The AL Cy Young Award...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2009
Desmond getting a chance
Jason Grey, ESPN.comJason 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.
Story | Conversation | September 13, 2009
Why Greinke should win the Cy Young
Buster OlneyBy 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 31, 2009
Rice swung and missed on Jeter
Buster OlneyOn 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2009
Hudson makes rehab debut
Kevin Goldstein, Baseball ProspectusKevin 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.
Story | Conversation | July 20, 2009
The familiar angle on Houston's surge
Buster OlneyThe 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...
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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 12, 2009
BP Daily: Let them play!
Jay Jaffe, Baseball ProspectusBaseball 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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 11, 2009
BP Daily: An AL reality check
Jay Jaffe, Baseball ProspectusThe 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.
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 ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 03, 2009
If You're Hardcore: Podsednik back, but not nearly as fast
Jason Grey, ESPN.comJason Grey digs deep into AL- and NL-only leagues and finds some potential diamonds, and he discusses whether to add Scott Podsednik.
Story | Conversation | May 03, 2009
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