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
The market for Miguel Cabrera
Buster OlneyThe 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009
Baseball could soon lose a giant
Buster OlneyBobby 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 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
Rice swung and missed on Jeter
Buster OlneyOn 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2009
Dodgers dropping back to pack
Buster OlneyI 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 09, 2009
Why Rose can't escape himself
Buster OlneyMLB 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 27, 2009
Some teams reluctant to part with prospects
Peter GammonsWhether it's the Philadelphia gang that Toronto requires for Roy Halladay, or Clay Buchholz that the Indians insist upon for Victor Martinez, or the g...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 25, 2009
BP Daily: The history of the "super deal"
Christina Kahrl, Baseball ProspectusThe Rangers traded Mark Teixeira to the Braves in 2007, and it is a major part of the foundation of their current success. Baseball Prospectus looks back at several other franchise-altering trades.
Story | Conversation | June 05, 2009
1988 Draft versus 1989 Draft
Jason A. Churchill...out of 200. Between the two drafts, there are only seven potential Hall of Famers in Jeff Bagwell , Mike Piazza, Jeff Kent, Trevor Hoffman, Jim Thome and Frank Thomas and Jason Giambi. And on...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 08, 2009
BP Daily: A-Rod likely to miss HR mark
Nate Silver, Baseball ProspectusWe're less than two years removed from Barry Bonds' somber, strange and soulless quest to break Henry Aaron's lifetime home run record. Unfortunately, it seems history is getting ready to repeat itself.
Story | Conversation | February 23, 2009
Thoughts about teams not playing in Fall Classic
There are two teams in the World Series, and 28 teams already preparing for 2009. Some pieces from the rest of the baseball landscape: • The De...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 22, 2008
Teams spending money on draft choices
The draft signing deadline passed Friday with a clear message: an increasing number of general managers have convinced their owners that listening to ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 20, 2008
Spurs-Lakers/Bagwell
...Spurs in Game 4. Fisch and Colin talk about their $250 bet. And Colin recaps the Jeff Bagwell's alleged steroid use conversation
Audio PodCast | May 27, 2008
Mets should consider Bonds
In the midst of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, it was United Nations ambassador Adlai Stevenson who raised the one option, among the many being consid...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 07, 2008
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