BP Daily: Sorting out AL playoff chances
Jay Jaffe, Baseball ProspectusBaseball Prospectus analyzes the AL schedules in the final five weeks of the season, and finds the White Sox are almost dead in the water and the Rays are in trouble, but the Rangers and Twins have life.
Story | Conversation | August 27, 2009
Baseball's week of U-turns
Buster OlneyThe baseball world has been a place of a lot of U-turns lately: If you pegged the Nationals for fewer than 40 victories in your office pool, well, yo...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009
BP Daily: Looking for a good Doc
Jay Jaffe, Baseball ProspectusBaseball Prospectus looks at various teams that could land Roy Halladay and the potential impact he'd have on their playoff chances. And even though the Phillies are out of the running now, they wouldn't have been the best fit anyway.
Story | Conversation | July 29, 2009
How to get Roy Halladay
Who is going to get Roy Halladay? "It's the guy who calls [Toronto GM] J.P. Ricciardi and says, 'OK, I want Halladay and I know the price is going to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 09, 2009
Early trade winds for Boston and Milwaukee
Some executives report that in the past couple of weeks, they've started the process of defining their own team's needs, of glancing over the rosters ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 19, 2009
Perkins likes going inside with fastball
Special to ESPN.comGlen Perkins will try to work inside Monday when he and the Twins face the Yankees.
Story | Conversation | May 17, 2009
Is Pujols among the most perfect players … ever?
Tony La Russa might have the toughest job in all of baseball: On a daily basis, it is his responsibility to come up with new and different ways to des...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 24, 2009
Kershaw has problem with heater
Special to ESPN.comFor a left-hander with premium velocity, Clayton Kershaw sure gets hit hard.
Story | Conversation | April 09, 2009
Hamels among most indispensable players
Buster OlneyNow it all makes sense, a scout said Monday afternoon, after hearing that Cole Hamels has gone to Philadelphia to have his elbow examined. The scout h...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 17, 2009
Baseball's strengthening code of conduct
Buster OlneyA club official stood by a batting cage this spring, as some of his players hit, and he spoke with relief about how great it was to have a troublesome...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 26, 2009
Rays' Howell mixes his pitches with precision
Tampa Bay Rays catcher Dioner Navarro strolled to the mound Friday with much at stake. Tampa Bay had a 3-2 lead in Game 2 of its American League Divis...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2008
Arms have let the Twins down
Special to ESPN.comPitching, not hitting, has been the problem for the Twins recently as they struggle to catch the White Sox in the AL Central.
Story | Conversation | September 23, 2008
Remembering Lyman Bostock
I never saw Lyman Bostock play, in person or on television. We didn't have a television, and we rarely left the county in Vermont where we lived, let ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 20, 2008
Cutting ties with Quentin, Webb, strugglers
Eric KarabellMad at Carlos Quentin? Hardly. On the contrary, I like to take positive outlooks on things. Sure, it would have been nice had Quentin continued his MV...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2008
Playing with Numbers: Earned runs versus actual runs allowed
AJ Mass, ESPN.comAJ Mass looks at how fraudulent a stat earned run average can be in determining a pitcher's value.
Story | Conversation | August 26, 2008
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