5 Results for dallas braden

The value of waiver warfare

Buster Olney

A friend of a general manager accepted an invitation to watch a game from the GM's private box this season, thinking how much fun it would be. The exp...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 02, 2009

Seven possibilities for a Mets front man

Buster Olney

Ordinary news briefings have become public-relations disasters for the New York Mets, writes Ben Shpigel, and members of the team's ownership have end...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 27, 2009

Get ready for Jason Heyward

Buster Olney

The conversations between the managers and the opposing third basemen occur organically in the minors, because the manager is often in the third-base ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 05, 2009

Oakland's new Young Guns

Buster Olney

...writes, and over the past six games, Oakland's starters -- including the grizzly 25-year-old Dallas Braden -- have a 1.12 ERA. A natural competition has developed among them, Cahill acknowledged before Mazzaro...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 08, 2009

Wieters ready now, but might wait

Buster Olney

Matt Wieters just keeps on hammering the ball this spring, and Saturday, he did it in the clutch, Peter Schmuck writes. He's hitting better than .400 ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | March 08, 2009