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Dodgers frozen, and falling behind

Buster Olney

The wind here in Indianapolis shook light poles, and the snow rode the same horizontal plane as a Lincecum fastball. Winter meetings, indeed. But insi...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | December 10, 2009

News and notes from Latin baseball

Jorge Arangure Jr.

While baseball fans, players and officials debated the merits of the increased presence of instant replay during Major League postseason games, replay...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009

For one night, Ordonez worth the cost

Buster Olney

It's too bad there isn't a transcript of the conversation that took place sometime this summer between Detroit Tigers owner Mike Ilitch and his baseba...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 30, 2009

Duensing among unlikely September stars

Buster Olney

The crises come daily in the pennant races, and all the stuff that really matters at the outset of spring training -- pedigree, salary, past statistic...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2009

Smoltz manufactures a comeback

Buster Olney

John Smoltz is a friend and golfing partner of Tiger Woods, which is hardly surprising, because the two men are similar in many ways. Both are superla...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 24, 2009

BP Daily: The path to National treasure

Kevin Goldstein, Baseball Prospectus

The Washington Nationals now have Stephen Strasburg in the fold. They also have guys like Ryan Zimmerman. How long until the Nats can compete in the NL East? BP Daily examines the key steps.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | August 19, 2009

PTI : Nationals' New Manager

Will the Washington Nationals be any better now that they have fired manager Manny Acta and replaced him with bench coach Jim Riggleman?

ESPN Insider Video | July 13, 2009

PTI : What About That Bat?

On Wednesday, Nick Green barely avoided a sheared piece of a maple bat as it flew through the air.

ESPN Insider Video | June 25, 2009

Aroldis Chapman: A left-handed Strasburg

The most intense bidding of the winter will not be over Matt Holliday or Jason Bay. It will not be John Lackey who is going to have the most bidders f...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 02, 2009

Adrenaline purged, Hanson's ready to dominate

When Tommy Hanson walked off the mound after making his first major league start this past Sunday, he went into the Braves' weight room and simply lai...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 12, 2009

Mets must face possibility that Reyes has peaked

A Jose Reyes triple exists somewhere on the list of the best things you might see at a baseball game, somewhere alongside an Albert Pujols laser and a...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 06, 2009

Rangers have what it takes to win AL West

A rainbow appeared over Camden Yards on the day Matt Wieters arrived, a black cloud hangs over the Colorado Rockies at a time when they've changed man...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 30, 2009

West could surprise for the Marlins

Jason Grey, ESPN.com

Jason Grey analyzes Sean West's debut and potential for the Florida Marlins and notes that there is some real upside there.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | May 24, 2009

A new diagnosis becomes medically hip

Four or five years ago, I worked on a story about pitching's impact on kids in youth leagues. One doctor detailed his theories as to why there has bee...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 24, 2009

How Cal Ripken could clean up baseball

Cal Ripken answered a question last week from an audience related to the issue of steroids and Alex Rodriguez, and it was in that context in which he ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 20, 2009