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Orioles' pieces starting to fall in place

Buster Olney

It was in the middle of the afternoon, the day before Thanksgiving, and yet Orioles president Andy MacPhail was at his desk, answering his phone. That...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 26, 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

Cashman casts praise far and wide

Buster Olney

As the Yankees' players hopped happily in the middle of the infield late Wednesday, in the first moments after winning the World Series, plastic glass...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2009

Hermida's move sure to be replicated

Buster Olney

The latest seismic rumbling probably hit the baseball landscape early Thursday morning -- probably before all the champagne-soaked Yankees reached the...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009

The Tigers must address Cabrera

Buster Olney

Police reportedly don't know everything that took place inside Miguel Cabrera's home Saturday morning because neither the Tigers' first baseman nor hi...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 08, 2009

Rays simply couldn't afford to keep Kazmir

Buster Olney

...of an elite group of about 50 players in Major League Baseball, a group that includes Johan Santana and Alex Rodriguez and Roy Halladay and Manny Ramirez, a group that also Eric Byrnes and...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 29, 2009

How Wagner shifted the market

Buster Olney

Sometime Tuesday morning, the reality of Billy Wagner's circumstances broadsided him. Regardless of whether he stayed with the Mets or not, Wagner alm...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2009

Sources: Mets hope against major repair

Buster Olney, ESPN The Magazine

The Mets won't know for sure about the status of Johan Santana until sometime after he has tests on Tuesday, but the expectation, sources say, is that his injury is not so serious that he will require reconstructive elbow surgery.

Story | Conversation | August 25, 2009

Inside another great Colorado run

Buster Olney

There was gleeful jumping and running and hat-tossing and a pig-pile kind of thing, and this was all taking place about 1,500 miles away from the Litt...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 25, 2009

Why the Yankees are now firing on all cylinders

Buster Olney

*Following this post, Buster will be taking a one week break to work on another project, and perhaps even play some King of the Mountain. He'll be bac...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 15, 2009

Money for nothin'

Buster Olney

...trades driven by money, from Oakland's trade of Vida Blue to the Twins' swap of Johan Santana to the Mets. The Texas Rangers moved a lot of salary in dealing Alex Rodriguez to...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 11, 2009

Baseball's week of U-turns

Buster Olney

The baseball world has been a place of a lot of U-turns lately: If you pegged the Nationals for fewer than 40 victories in your office pool, well, yo...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009

The Hall should preserve history, not dodge it

Buster Olney

The day after Bill Madden wrote a story saying commissioner Bud Selig was thinking seriously about reinstating Pete Rose, there is another story from ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 28, 2009

Swine flu should concern baseball

Buster Olney

Vicente Padilla has swine flu, and other Rangers may be diagnosed with the same illness -- but so far, none of the cases are thought to be serious. ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 25, 2009

Eight reasons for Halladay to be a Phillie

Buster Olney

...an extension as a condition for him to agree to a trade, in the way that Johan Santana did before he extracted a $137.5 million deal out of the Mets. Right now, interested...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 23, 2009