The Yankees' case for Halladay
Buster OlneyThe Yankees, Mets and Red Sox have spent more money in free agency over the past decade than any other teams, as ESPN's esteemed Mark Simon notes: Bi...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2009
Cleveland, Washington should consider Valentine
Buster OlneyBobby Valentine's first full season as manager of the Mets was 1997, a year in which I took a job with The New York Times, and I covered him for just ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 04, 2009
A "Major League" move by the Padres
Buster Olney...Randy Wolf nor Greg Maddux, who had been dealt during the year. He tried to trade Jake Peavy, but while those talks stalled, Towers had managed to get the payroll number down to $43...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 03, 2009
Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars
Buster OlneyIt is still September and nine days of regular-season baseball remain, but the playoffs provided the context for everything that occurred at Yankee St...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 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. The AL Cy Young Award...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2009
A somber celebration in Detroit
Buster OlneyErnie Harwell will chat with his extended family tonight, from a baseball field in Detroit, and Al Kaline has a pretty good idea of what he will say. ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 16, 2009
The overlooked stars of the season
Buster OlneyZack Greinke is battling for the Cy Young Award, and that standing has hoisted him out of the second division and into the national conversation. Simi...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 14, 2009
How teams can learn from the Marlins
Buster OlneyRicky 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2009
For a night, Penny is prime currency
Buster OlneyMike Krukow, half of the Giants' broadcast team, said it best about Brad Penny in the seventh or eighth inning of the pitcher's debut with San Francis...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 03, 2009
The value of waiver warfare
Buster OlneyA 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 02, 2009
Joe Torre's Straw man acquisition
Buster OlneyJoe Torre loved having Darryl Strawberry on his bench in the days when the two were manager and player with the New York Yankees. Strawberry didn't pl...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 01, 2009
Why Greinke should win the Cy Young
Buster OlneyBy 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 31, 2009
Zito bolsters Giants' wild-card push
Buster OlneyRemember when Barry Zito tried to remake his mechanics, when he showed up to his first spring training with the Giants intent on improving his velocit...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 30, 2009
Rays simply couldn't afford to keep Kazmir
Buster Olney...Halladay and Manny Ramirez, a group that also Eric Byrnes and Jeff Suppan and Aaron Harang and Jake Westbrook. It's a group that does not include Derek Jeter or Mark Teixeira, or any member...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 29, 2009
Seven possibilities for a Mets front man
Buster Olney...as well 37 other items on MLB news, notes, injuries and the possible ChiSox debut of Jake Peavy, you must be an ESPN Insider. 1. Billy Beane: He has a contract with Oakland through...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 27, 2009
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