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The (harsh) lessons of the GM meetings

Buster Olney

Executives and agents packed their bags and boarded planes in Chicago, thinking about what they had seen and heard over the previous 48 hours, such as...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2009

How teams can learn from the Marlins

Buster Olney

Ricky 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2009

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

How Wagner shifted the market

Buster Olney

Sometime Tuesday morning, the reality of Billy Wagner's circumstances broadsided him. Regardless of whether he stayed with the Mets or not, Wagner alm...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2009

Why Rose can't escape himself

Buster Olney

MLB commissioner Bud Selig is said to be seriously mulling a pardon for Pete Rose, Bill Madden writes. A pardon would clear the way for Rose to make i...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 27, 2009

Sorting through the AL scheduling

Buster Olney

Ten notables from the American League schedule: 1. The Indians are looking at a meat grinder early in the year: In the first two months and one day o...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 02, 2009

AL CENTRAL

Buster Olney

...transition to the AL. Fear for the bullpen.Joel Zumaya could be out until midsummer, and Fernando Rodney has been dogged by shoulder tendinitis for a year. At 39, Todd Jones might fall off...

Story | Conversation | March 25, 2008