Multiple avenues for Philly
Buster OlneyDominoes fell rapidly throughout the majors Monday, with deals and trades setting up more deals or negotiations or questions. The Phillies: The prima...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 15, 2009
Orioles' pieces starting to fall in place
Buster OlneyIt was in the middle of the afternoon, the day before Thanksgiving, and yet Orioles president Andy MacPhail was at his desk, answering his phone. That...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 26, 2009
La Russa may be leaving St. Louis
Buster OlneyNobody will know how the St. Louis Cardinals' season might have ended if the third out hadn't escaped them in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 2...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 11, 2009
Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars
Buster OlneyIt is still September and nine days of regular-season baseball remain, but the playoffs provided the context for everything that occurred at Yankee St...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 2009
The King becomes a craftsman
Buster OlneyIt wasn't the optimal situation for a new pitching coach to get to know a star pitcher. In spring training, Felix Hernandez was away from the Mariners...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 25, 2009
Cracks in the AL contenders
Buster Olney...The Red Sox Boston's staff is trending in a positive direction, generally, in recent weeks. Clay Buchholz seems to have figured out how to do damage control once a couple of guys get...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 17, 2009
Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis
Buster OlneyMilwaukee general manager Doug Melvin wrote in an e-mail posted here Monday that Trevor Hoffman is the Cal Ripken of pitchers, in the way that he prep...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2009
The overlooked stars of the season
Buster OlneyZack Greinke is battling for the Cy Young Award, and that standing has hoisted him out of the second division and into the national conversation. Simi...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 14, 2009
Why Holliday could end up a rental
Buster OlneyAs the summer's trade season played out, rival executives came away from conversations with the Cardinals believing St. Louis wasn't in position to ta...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 11, 2009
How teams can learn from the Marlins
Buster OlneyRicky Nolasco came into the season projected to be a leader of one of the best young rotations in the majors. On May 22, Nolasco gave up eight runs ov...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2009
Zito bolsters Giants' wild-card push
Buster OlneyRemember when Barry Zito tried to remake his mechanics, when he showed up to his first spring training with the Giants intent on improving his velocit...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 30, 2009
The productive plunkers
Buster OlneyBuck Showalter walked over to the rest of the "Baseball Tonight" pod in Bristol on Thursday night holding a stat sheet in his hand and bearing the kin...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 14, 2009
Why White Sox might want Rios
Buster OlneySome team has claimed Alex Rios on waivers and will know by early Tuesday afternoon whether he will become theirs, and there is lots of evidence that ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 08, 2009
Nine reasons this NYY-BOS series is pivotal
Buster OlneyThe Hype Meter runs at the highest level whenever the Red Sox and Yankees play, a 10 on a scale of 10 even when it's just a three-game series in April...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 06, 2009
Trade deadline ripples
Buster OlneySome rippling after the trade deadline: The Padres had to trade Jake Peavy lest they run the risk of having one guy take up 30 to 40 percent of their...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 02, 2009
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