What to watch for in Game 6 of the ALCS
Buster Olney...he has such good breaking stuff to make that fastball play a little bigger." Pettitte Saunders 2. Joe Saunders and Andy Pettitte, the starting pitchers. Both threw effectively in no-decisions earlier in this series...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 24, 2009
A game filled with crossroads
Buster Olney...is called out at first base by umpire Dale Scott. Replay instantly shows that he was safe. Joe Buck of Fox says flatly: Chalk up another one, referring to the abundance of missed calls this...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2009
ALCS Game 2 filled with regrets, redemption
Buster OlneyThe Yankees and Angels played through 13 innings, 432 pitches and 310 minutes (not to mention 6,980 meetings between Yankees catcher Jose Molina and h...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 18, 2009
Kershaw is the great X factor
Buster OlneyThe first inning that Clayton Kershaw threw in the major leagues lasted 32 pitches. He was 20 years old at the time, working too quickly, and learning...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 14, 2009
Manuel's faith in Lidge pays off
Buster OlneyThe fates of managers and pitching coaches are tied to their pitchers, and when a pitcher starts to go bad, some staffers instinctively separate thems...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 13, 2009
Instant replay must be expanded … immediately
Buster OlneyThere were mistakes made by professionals this week. The gritty Ryan Raburn played a pop-fly single into a triple in the Metrodome. Chris Carpenter le...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 10, 2009
For a night, Penny is prime currency
Buster OlneyMike Krukow, half of the Giants' broadcast team, said it best about Brad Penny in the seventh or eighth inning of the pitcher's debut with San Francis...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 03, 2009
Why Greinke should win the Cy Young
Buster OlneyBy the standards of a David Wells or Livan Hernandez or John Smoltz or Orlando Hernandez or Curt Schilling or Randy Johnson, Zack Greinke has yet to p...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 31, 2009
Rays simply couldn't afford to keep Kazmir
Buster OlneyHad Scott Kazmir remained with the Tampa Bay Rays for 2010, he likely would have been one member of an elite group of about 50 players in Major League...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 29, 2009
How Wagner shifted the market
Buster Olney...wouldn't replace him with an expensive alternative), the Yankees (Mariano Rivera), Toronto (Scott Downs), Minnesota (Joe Nathan), Cleveland (Kerry Wood), Kansas City (Joakim Soria), Seattle (David Aardsma, who has been solid), the Angels...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 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
Twins hopeful Mauer can get back on the field
Buster Olney...among the best players in the game at their position," Smith said. "Mauer, [Justin] Morneau and [Joe] Nathan. So Mauer is a critical piece." Gardenhire cannot control the situation, so he just goes about...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 13, 2009
Execs reluctant to sign older stars to long deals
Buster OlneyThe economy T-boned the free-agent market this winter, seemingly at 100 mph, and this was the major reason why established players -- guys who had bee...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 07, 2009
Heightened pressure now heaped on Teixeira
Buster OlneySo Alex Rodriguez embarks on an uncertain course. The Yankees don't know if he'll be available Opening Day or in May. They don't know if he'll be avai...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 06, 2009
Break from baseball sickening
Buster OlneyYou'll have a great time with the kids at Disney World, my friends told me. It'll be so much fun, they said. A nice break from baseball, they told me....
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 02, 2009
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