205 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

Some teams reluctant to part with prospects

Peter Gammons

Whether 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 25, 2009

BP Daily: The history of the "super deal"

Christina Kahrl, Baseball Prospectus

The 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.

ESPN Insider 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 08, 2009

BP Daily: A-Rod likely to miss HR mark

Nate Silver, Baseball Prospectus

We'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.

ESPN Insider 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...

ESPN Insider 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 ...

ESPN Insider 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

ESPN Insider 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | March 07, 2008