Jim Caple

Jim Caple

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Jim Caple is a senior writer at ESPN.com, with his weekly baseball column "Off Base" for Page 2 among his contributions. Before coming to ESPN, Jim worked in Minneapolis and Seattle. His first book, "The Devil Wears Pinstripes," can also be ordered through his Web site, jimcaple.net.

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Edgar's HOF chances

Jorge Arangure Jr.

Last weekend former Seattle Mariners slugger Edgar Martinez, in an interview with the Puerto Rican newspaper Primera Hora during an autograph session ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Spartak owner's death is big loss for game

Mechelle Voepel

...league, Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi are paid and pampered like Shaq and Dwyane Wade. Revisit Jim Caple's E-Ticket from May 2007, Rolling In Rubles. Kalmanovic, who was shot to death in...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009

Three Strikes: Hamels joins a short list

...TWO -- TROP-A-MANIA DEPT.: Let's hear it for that historic championship palace, Tropicana Field. Jim Caple and I poked a little fun at the Trop in our Game 1 video blog. But...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2008

Aug. 24: Beijing Bureau closing down

...staff weighs in one last time before heading home from Beijing: From ESPN.com senior writer Jim Caple: I could say my most lasting memory of the Olympics was watching the cycling race at...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 24, 2008

Aug. 15: The Great (and painful) Wall

From ESPN.com senior writer Jim Caple: JUYONGGUAN -- The warning sign was clear, even if the grammar wasn't. "Heart cerebral disease sufferers...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 16, 2008

Aug. 11: Presidential delay

From ESPN.com senior writer Jim Caple: Mao's portrait still dominates outside the Forbidden City, but if you wanted a lesson in...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 11, 2008

Aug. 9: Houston, we have a problem

...be officially communist, but it certainly knows how supply and demand works. -- ESPN.com senior writer Jim Caple

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 09, 2008

Interest in Bonds waning?

Jim Caple

SAN FRANCISCO -- If a milestone fell and no one was there to see it, would it count on the back of a baseball card? We may find out as the Barry Bond...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 23, 2006

No escaping the doubt

Jim Caple

SAN FRANCISCO -- I don't know whether Barry Bonds will catch Hank Aaron or not, but I'm beginning to think that Albert Pujols might lap him on his way...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 22, 2006

Now batting ... Ortmeier?

Jim Caple

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The beautiful thing about baseball is that no matter whether you have 715 home runs or none at all, at some point you're going to w...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 21, 2006

Long way to 755

Jim Caple

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Well, at least "Bonds on Bonds" should be a little more interesting this week. After a wait so long it's hard to believe it didn'...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 21, 2006

The new Barry?

Jim Caple and Pedro Gomez

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Is Barry Bonds just in a deep slump that will end soon, or is it time for us to adjust to a Barry who doesn't hit home runs as if h...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 19, 2006

Don't be shy of Bonds

Jim Caple

SAN FRANCISCO -- Should a pitcher worry about giving up Barry Bonds' 714th or 715th home runs and being remembered for that the rest of his life? Not ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 08, 2006

Getting a reaction

Jim Caple

...in Oakland or New York (fortunately for him, Boston isn't on the schedule). For more from Caple, click here

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2006

Barry's busy spring

Jim Caple

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Barry Bonds didn't play a lot of games in the Cactus League, but he had quite a spring anyway. He began by saying that this would...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2006