The internal trade deadline
Buster OlneyIn the hours after Alex Anthopoulos was named as general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, he returned to his hotel room in Baltimore and just absorbe...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 22, 2009
A chip-cashing trade
Buster Olney...picked for the Midsummer Classic last year. Max Scherzer is regarded, generally, as one of the great young power arms in the game, and there will be back-to-back days, inevitably, when right-handed...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 09, 2009
Halladay wants deal done by spring
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineRoy Halladay, the All-Star pitcher who has been the subject of much trade talk since before the July deadline last summer, will not approve any proposed deal after he reports to spring training, according to his representatives.
Story | Conversation | December 01, 2009The free agent do-call list
Buster OlneyThe free-agent signing period begins four days from now, and we know that Matt Holliday, John Lackey and Jason Bay are going to be paid the most money...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 2009
A new chapter for Lee and Sabathia
Buster Olney...lots of phone calls of support to Lee in Buffalo, N.Y. Sabathia won the 2007 Cy Young Award and was traded in 2008, and when Lee won the Cy Young Award in 2008...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009
Sabathia giving Yankees whatever they need
Buster Olney...decidedly did not live up to the hype). Sabathia has been an All-Star and a Cy Young Award winner and yet he has made adjustments and changes when necessary. He has worked on...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2009
Opening up the mailbag
Buster Olney...Atlanta Braves. He just turned 20, and his physical presence and skills remind some evaluators of a young Darryl Strawberry, but he appears to be a much more refined prospect than Strawberry ever was. Heyward...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 09, 2009
Tigers, Twins and my award picks
Buster OlneyCarl Pavano seemed almost out of breath Sunday night, naturally, at the end of a day in which he and the Twins had won a game they had to win, after t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2009
Cleveland, Washington should consider Valentine
Buster Olney...There was debate within the Mets' organization late in spring training about the merits of a powerful young slugger named Butch Huskey; a lot of front-office folks thought he could be an effective major...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 04, 2009
Type A positive
Buster OlneyJason Varitek and Juan Cruz found themselves boxed into a maze of baseball rules and regulations last winter, walled in by circumstance. But they prob...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 02, 2009
The catch heard 'round the Rockies
Buster OlneyThere were no tangible advantages working in favor of Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes in the ninth inning late Sunday afternoon as he turned to pu...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 28, 2009
A slimmer Kung Fu Panda is needed
Buster OlneyThe Giants lost again Saturday and will soon be eliminated, and in time their focus will shift to 2010, as John Shea writes. Pablo Sandoval will like...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 27, 2009
Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars
Buster Olney...something. Which is exactly what happened. For more observations on the Red Sox and Yankees, the Cy Young Wars, Aroldis Chapman, and much more, you must be an ESPN Insider. In one three-pitch...
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
Baseball could soon lose a giant
Buster Olney...might be wrong. For more on Bobby Cox, notes on the pennant races, the Greinke-Hernandez Cy Young battle, and much more, you must be an ESPN Insider. It is apparently possible that sometime...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2009
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