Post-winter meetings questions
Buster OlneyThe most prominent unresolved questions coming out of the winter meetings: 1. Where will Roy Halladay be traded? Halladay We talk all the time...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 12, 2009
A chip-cashing trade
Buster Olney...picked for the Midsummer Classic last year. Max Scherzer is regarded, generally, as one of the great young power arms in the game, and there will be back-to-back days, inevitably, when right-handed...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 09, 2009
Running with Bob Sheppard
Buster Olney...Phillies or Angels. 2. As Alex Anthopoulos decides what to do with Halladay, his buzzword is "sustainability," Jeremy Sandler writes. 3. The Pirates will look at some veterans among the free agents, but the chances...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 28, 2009
Orioles' pieces starting to fall in place
Buster Olney...talent evaluators -- likes the progress he sees in the Orioles, who have developed a tremendous core of young talent, from Nick Markakis to Matt Wieters, to young pitchers Brian Matusz and Chris Tillman. I mentioned...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 26, 2009
Cash grab
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineDuring this winter's free agency and arbritration, good things won't come to those who wait.
Story | Conversation | November 20, 2009
The (harsh) lessons of the GM meetings
Buster OlneyExecutives and agents packed their bags and boarded planes in Chicago, thinking about what they had seen and heard over the previous 48 hours, such as...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2009
Hermida's move sure to be replicated
Buster Olney...the hints became something more tangible than that. Jeremy Hermida, a former No. 1 pick whose offensive...small-market and mid-market teams either dumping young players for second-rate packages or simply cutting...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009
Baseball's next great economic disparity
Buster Olney...about to adjust to this reality, and this is why multiple general managers expect that dozens of young players with three, four and five years of major league experience will be cut loose rather than...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 01, 2009
A new chapter for Lee and Sabathia
Buster Olney...lots of phone calls of support to Lee in Buffalo, N.Y. Sabathia won the 2007 Cy Young Award and was traded in 2008, and when Lee won the Cy Young Award in 2008 and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009
Replay for the World Series could work
Buster OlneyDon Denkinger, an umpire who had one of the most famous blown calls in history, tells Bob Klapisch: It's time to go to replay. Here's the thing: Even...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 22, 2009
Opening up the mailbag
Buster Olney...Atlanta Braves. He just turned 20, and his physical presence and skills remind some evaluators of a young Darryl Strawberry, but he appears to be a much more refined prospect than Strawberry ever was. Heyward...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 09, 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 won a game they had to win, after t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2009
The Cy Young cases for Greinke and King Felix
Buster Olney...to include information in their media dispatches about their various candidates for major awards. The AL Cy Young Award is increasingly a two-horse race between the Royals' Zack Greinke and the Mariners' Felix Hernandez...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 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 over two innings, and immediately...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2009
Seven possibilities for a Mets front man
Buster OlneyOrdinary news briefings have become public-relations disasters for the New York Mets, writes Ben Shpigel, and members of the team's ownership have end...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 27, 2009
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