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Piece by piece, the Minnesota Twins are getting better. It's just that you can't really see it yet -- not at Target Field, anyway. The big league Twins have been something of a surprise in how effective their pitching has been, and Minnesota begi...

Blog | May 18, 2013

It was an all-around tough day for the Tampa Bay Rays, who saw Fernando Rodney blow up in the ninth inning and blow a lead to the Red Sox, this just a little while after they placed Cy Young Award winner David Price on the disabled list. For an or...

Blog | May 17, 2013

It's as if somebody is sticking pins into the class of would-be free-agent pitchers: Roy Halladay: Out indefinitely with a shoulder problem; he'll be examined today. His contract with the Phillies is set to expire this fall. Gavin Floyd: ...

Blog | May 07, 2013

Buster Olney takes a look at the would-be free-agent market for starting pitchers and realizes he's essentially sifting through the infirmary. Everyone who could be a free agent is hurt. So who takes their place?

Blog | Conversation | May 07, 2013

The Texas Rangers have started preparing for a possible blockbuster deal in the months ahead, asking questions and laying groundwork, rival evaluators say, but presumably, Texas is not alone. Some executives within the industry expect that sometime o...

Blog | April 16, 2013

Buster Olney looks at what it would cost to trade for David Price or Giancarlo Stanton, and speculates as to which teams are in the running for their services.

Blog | Conversation | April 16, 2013

Justin Upton is not going to hit 135 homers, Matt Harvey is not going to win every game, and Clayton Kershaw is going to allow a run (probably). But there are small sample sizes from the first nine days of the 2013 season that are worth believing in....

Blog | April 09, 2013

Buster Olney looks at what we've learned through the first week of the season.

Blog | Conversation | April 09, 2013

Buster Olney explains how both Yu Darvish and Jered Weaver use feel as pitchers and the ability to manipulate the trajectory and spin of the ball to their advantage. Plus, news and notes from around baseball.

Blog | Conversation | April 07, 2013

HOUSTON -- The guy who is the No. 2 starting pitcher for the Houston Astros, a team expected to lose a lot of games this summer, stood in the Houston dugout Saturday and talked pitching with former pitchers Orel Hershiser and Steve Sparks. Well, let...

Blog | March 31, 2013

Buster Olney writes about why Opening Day is great in baseball, revisits his divisional and World Series predictions and gives insight on news and notes around the league.

Blog | Conversation | March 31, 2013

Friends who play fantasy baseball ask me all the time about possible picks, and while I don't know about value relative to the rounds in a fantasy draft in the way Eric Karabell or Matthew Berry do, these are some of the names I've mentione...

Blog | March 29, 2013

Buster Olney gives his fantasy baseball recommendations for the 2013 season.

Blog | Conversation | March 29, 2013

Jim Leyland wore a small smile last week as he talked about team chemistry. He said if you win, you've got a great clubhouse, but if you lose, then it's said you have a bad clubhouse. He's right, of course. Almost everything else foll...

Blog | March 24, 2013

Buster Olney takes a look at 10 of baseball's most inflammatory situations this season, including Charlie Manuel's future in Philadelphia and the battle for the L.A. market.

Blog | Conversation | March 24, 2013

The season begins two weeks from today, and in the next 14 days there are a lot of questions that need to be addressed. Here are six of them: 1. Is Aroldis Chapman a closer or starter? Chapman started Saturday and had mixed results, with some comma...

Blog | March 17, 2013