Multiple avenues for Philly
Buster OlneyDominoes fell rapidly throughout the majors Monday, with deals and trades setting up more deals or negotiations or questions. The Phillies: The prima...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 15, 2009
Post-winter meetings questions
Buster OlneyThe most prominent unresolved questions coming out of the winter meetings: 1. Where will Roy Halladay be traded? Halladay We talk all the time...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 12, 2009
Signing Mauer a percentage play
Buster OlneyThere are a couple of Dodgers fans in Aberdeen, S.D., as I learned over the last week, and a lot of Orioles fans, because of the team's past minor lea...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009
Boston velocity versus Anaheim speed
Buster Olney...in spite of the fact that their swings might be confused for those of a vintage Gary Sheffield, well, they will wreak havoc. For a lot more on a Red Sox-Angels matchup, free...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 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
Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis
Buster OlneyMilwaukee general manager Doug Melvin wrote in an e-mail posted here Monday that Trevor Hoffman is the Cal Ripken of pitchers, in the way that he prep...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2009
Why Holliday could end up a rental
Buster OlneyAs the summer's trade season played out, rival executives came away from conversations with the Cardinals believing St. Louis wasn't in position to ta...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 11, 2009
Source: Sheffield, Feliciano pulled back
Buster Olney, ESPN.comGary Sheffield and Pedro Feliciano, two of the more attractive commodities on the Mets in a season in which so many players have gotten hurt, were both claimed on waivers -- and then withdrawn by the Mets, meaning that neither player can be traded.
Story | Conversation | August 12, 2009Baseball's week of U-turns
Buster Olney...a Yankees single-season record in that category. The previous record of five was shared by Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez (2005), Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio (1936), and Gehrig and Babe Ruth (1927...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009
Nine reasons this NYY-BOS series is pivotal
Buster Olney...them right back into the race in the AL East, writes Joe Henderson. It's official, writes Gary Shelton: The Rays are in the thick of the playoff chase. The Red Sox rotation. Josh Beckett...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 06, 2009
The New York Mets' guru problem
Buster OlneyA constant challenge for those who worked for George Steinbrenner when he ran the Yankees was to try to keep track of who had his ear and happened to ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 26, 2009
The familiar angle on Houston's surge
Buster Olney...he did. That said, the Mets lost another player to injury on Sunday, and another game. Gary Sheffield's injury is more than just a cramp. Livan Hernandez's spot might be in jeopardy...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 20, 2009
Ranking the NL's easiest roads to the postseason
Buster OlneyHere's the ranking of strength of schedule in the second half in the NL. It's great news if you're a fan of the Brewers or the Dodgers or the Marlins,...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 18, 2009
Schafer's big day encouraging for Atlanta
Buster OlneyThe Braves took batting practice Saturday, and then Bobby Cox summoned Jordan Schafer into his office. The last two weeks had been an anxious time f...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009
Hope meets reality as new season dawns
Buster OlneyThe optimism that manifests itself in every spring training will begin to seep away today at 8 p.m., just like clockwork, when Brett Myers throws the ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 05, 2009
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