16 Results for jeff bagwell

Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)

Buster Olney

So 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 ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009

The market for Miguel Cabrera

Buster Olney

The Tigers are in cost-cutting mode and they are willing to discuss a possible trade of Miguel Cabrera, writes Lynn Henning. Set aside, for a momen...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Baseball could soon lose a giant

Buster Olney

Bobby Cox first mentioned walking away from baseball in the spring of 2008, and when word of this reached Gene Michael, a former teammate and longtime...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2009

Zito bolsters Giants' wild-card push

Buster Olney

Remember 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 30, 2009

Rice swung and missed on Jeter

Buster Olney

On a Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, I happened across a YES Network broadcast of Yankee Ron Guidry's 18-strikeout game against the California Ang...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2009

Dodgers dropping back to pack

Buster Olney

I hated the Cincinnati Reds as a kid, because they were the Big Red Machine that seemed to zoom past my own favorite team, the Dodgers, giving me litt...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 09, 2009

Why Rose can't escape himself

Buster Olney

MLB commissioner Bud Selig is said to be seriously mulling a pardon for Pete Rose, Bill Madden writes. A pardon would clear the way for Rose to make i...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 27, 2009

Oswalt hurls masterpiece at Cardinals

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

Roy Oswalt was at the top of his game in silencing the Cardinals, sending the Astros to their first World Series.

Story | Conversation | October 19, 2005

Oswalt overwhelms Cardinals 'with his stuff'

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

Roy Oswalt was on top of his game in every possible way and dominated the Cardinals in Game 2 of the NLCS, writes Buster Olney.

Story | Conversation | October 13, 2005

Around the National League

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

What must go right, what could go wrong? A team-by-team look at the National League.

Story | Conversation | February 16, 2005

Top 10 LCS matchups

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

The Top 10 key confrontations that will likely decide the Red Sox-Yankees and Astros-Cardinals series'.

Story | Conversation | October 12, 2004

Crucial confrontations

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

Johan Santana against the Yankees is just one of the more intriguing clashes ahead in the Division Series.

Story | Conversation | October 04, 2004

Big rally for Astros

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

The Astros rallied for five runs in the ninth inning Thursday to beat the Giants and avoid a sweep.

Story | Conversation | September 21, 2004

Dodgers still high risk

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

Some were winners (Marlins) and others losers (Dodgers). Nearly a month later, another look at the deadline deals.

Story | Conversation | August 27, 2004

'It was storybook like'

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

Andy Pettitte didn't need to push Roger Clemens' signing with Houston. They just knew it was right.

Story | Conversation | February 17, 2004