Seattle balances cash with caution
Buster Olney...would set up the foundation for negotiations that ultimately are more important to the franchise -- the Felix Hernandez contract talks. If the Mariners go out and aggressively spend on Lackey, at $16 million a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 08, 2009
Breaking down market moves and chatter
Buster OlneyLet's pick through some recent developments in the market … Item A: The Phillies know Placido Polanco from his days with the team earlier this...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 04, 2009
The market for Miguel Cabrera
Buster OlneyThe Tigers are in cost-cutting mode and they are willing to discuss a possible trade of Miguel Cabrera, writes Lynn Henning. Set aside, for a momen...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009
Seattle could land Lackey
Buster Olney...starts during his career -- and the timing is right. Seattle needs help in its rotation, behind Felix Hernandez, and the Mariners has had a boatload of salary come off their books. The team traded...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 09, 2009
McGwire has a road map, but also a guide
Buster OlneyWe saw again Sunday night an example of how others have talked about their past use of performance-enhancing drugs and moved on. Yankees pitcher Andy ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 26, 2009
Porcello's fastball will be his tell
Buster OlneyRick Porcello's fastball will be his tell Tuesday, a longtime scout said Monday. A poker player might betray something with the way he shifts in his c...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 06, 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
For one night, Ordonez worth the cost
Buster OlneyIt'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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 30, 2009
Boston velocity versus Anaheim speed
Buster OlneyThere are going to be two hard truths in play in the forthcoming division series between the Red Sox and the Angels, according to some talent evaluato...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 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
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 Olney...situation for a new pitching coach to get to know a star pitcher. In spring training, Felix Hernandez was away from the Mariners and preparing for the World Baseball Classic, so Rick Adair really...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 25, 2009
Baseball could soon lose a giant
Buster Olney...Gene Michael 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2009
Duensing among unlikely September stars
Buster OlneyThe crises come daily in the pennant races, and all the stuff that really matters at the outset of spring training -- pedigree, salary, past statistic...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2009
The Cy Young cases for Greinke and King Felix
Buster Olney...Young Award is increasingly a two-horse race between the Royals' Zack Greinke and the Mariners' Felix Hernandez. To see the cases for Greinke and Hernandez, plus tons of other news, free agency and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2009
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