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Prospect Kelly to focus on pitching

Gordon Edes, ESPNBoston.com

Kelly to focus on pitching; little other news at Day 1 of meetings

Story | Conversation | December 07, 2009

ESPN RISE All-Decade Baseball Team

ESPN RISE

ESPN RISE All-Decade Baseball Team

Story | Conversation | November 23, 2009

Money talks, but baseball won't listen

Howard Bryant, ESPN.com

Did the Yankees buy a World Series celebration? Their money didn't hurt, but that $207 million payroll is the least of baseball's competitive-balance problems.

Story | Conversation | November 17, 2009

Offseason notebook: Hot stove cooking

Tristan H. Cockcroft, ESPN.com

Tristan H. Cockcroft wraps up many of the early offseason deals, like the J.J. Hardy-Carlos Gomez trade, and what they mean for fantasy owners.

Story | Conversation | November 13, 2009

Ralph Kiner was a pilot before a Pirate

Ralph Kiner (as told to Toby Mergler), Special to Page 2

Legendary baseball player and broadcaster Ralph Kiner recalls his days flying planes in World War II.

Story | Conversation | November 09, 2009

Lee's calm is the Yankees' storm

Buster Olney

...enthusiastically, and Lee just kept on moving, as always. We think of time of possession as a football stat, but it was appropriate for Lee's start, as these numbers from Jeremy Mills of ESPN...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 29, 2009

Manuel's faith in Lidge pays off

Buster Olney

The fates of managers and pitching coaches are tied to their pitchers, and when a pitcher starts to go bad, some staffers instinctively separate thems...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 13, 2009

Porcello's fastball will be his tell

Buster Olney

Rick 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 06, 2009

Rivera, Nathan lead '10 relief rankings

Eric Karabell, ESPN.com

Eric Karabell reviews each team's bullpen situation this year and previews the closer situations for 2010.

Story | Conversation | September 30, 2009

Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars

Buster Olney

It is still September and nine days of regular-season baseball remain, but the playoffs provided the context for everything that occurred at Yankee St...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 2009

King Felix leads list of road warriors

AJ Mass, ESPN.com

AJ Mass previews Thursday's MLB action, and says that all the top pitching options are starting on the road.

Story | Conversation | September 23, 2009

Wild night

Bruce Levine, ESPNChicago.com

Bruce Levine presents a first-person account looking back 25 years when the Chicago Cubs clinched their division title.

Story | Conversation | September 23, 2009

Wainwright commanding plate, and attention

Buster Olney

There aren't many pitchers who can consistently command a breaking ball on both sides of home plate, a longtime talent evaluator said Wednesday aftern...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 10, 2009

Why Greinke should win the Cy Young

Buster Olney

By the standards of a David Wells or Livan Hernandez or John Smoltz or Orlando Hernandez or Curt Schilling or Randy Johnson, Zack Greinke has yet to p...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 31, 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