Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)
Buster OlneySo many teams are sitting back and waiting for the completion of the Type A free-agent and possible non-tender markets that there probably won't be a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009
Lackey's and Bay's markets emerge
Keith LawLast week the Hall of Fame announced the entries on its nonplayer ballot, which includes owners, umpires, executives, managers and longtime union...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 2009
Obstacles to a World Series rematch
Buster Olney...quoted a general after Game 6, in pronouncing that the baseball world has not seen the last of the Phillies. "I'll tell you something -- we will be back," Manuel said. "As MacArthur said, I...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 05, 2009
ALCS Game 2 filled with regrets, redemption
Buster Olney...mention 6,980 meetings between Yankees catcher Jose Molina and his pitchers) Saturday night, creating a canvas of baseball that the participants will think about for the rest of their lives. For some -- such as...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 18, 2009
The baserunning report
Christina Kahrl, Baseball ProspectusBaserunning is crucial to postseason success. So which of the remaining LCS teams take to the base paths the best? Baseball Prospectus explains using its EqBRR metric.
Story | Conversation | October 14, 2009
Baseball's top 10 baserunning blunders
Rob Neyer, ESPN.comNick Punto and Carlos Gomez are included on Rob Neyer's list of the top 10 all-time baserunning blunders.
Story | Conversation | October 14, 2009
Kershaw is the great X factor
Buster Olney...too quickly, and learning an important lesson right away: If you throw the ball down the middle of the plate in the major leagues, you're not necessarily going to beat the hitters the way...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 14, 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2009
The unique value of October baseball
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineAs Buster Olney writes in the October 5 issue of ESPN The Magazine -- if you don't think playoff baseball is different, then, well, you're probably not a player, are you?
Story | Conversation | September 27, 2009
Exclusive chat with Red Sox prospect Jose Iglesias
Jorge Arangure Jr.In late July of 2008, Cuban shortstop Jose Iglesias defected from his country's junior national team while playing in a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 25, 2009
Baseball could soon lose a giant
Buster Olney...a major league team. There will be a day when he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. For those almost three decades' worth of seasons, players have heard Cox cheerily call to them...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2009
The Cy Young cases for Greinke and King Felix
Buster OlneyThis time of year, teams begin to include information in their media dispatches about their various candidates for major awards...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2009
Cracks in the AL contenders
Buster Olney...count was full, the bases were loaded and Brian Fuentes fired a fastball at the lowest part of the strike zone Wednesday night, and when home plate umpire Rick Reed called the pitch a ball...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 17, 2009
Wainwright commanding plate, and attention
Buster OlneyThere aren't many pitchers who can consistently command a breaking ball on both sides of home plate, a longtime talent evaluator said Wednesday afternoon. Most pitchers can command a fastball on what...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 10, 2009
BP Daily: Mauer won't win MVP
Jay Jaffe, Baseball ProspectusBaseball Prospectus brings out a new metric to predict MVP voting -- JUMP -- and finds that Joe Mauer doesn't have much of a chance at the AL award. The NL MVP, though, should be a runaway for Albert Pujols.
Story | Conversation | August 31, 2009
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