Why Pineiro will get his payday
Buster Olney...could be that Pineiro will get the largest contract for any veteran free-agent pitcher not named John Lackey. Pineiro refined a sinker through his work with St. Louis pitching coach Dave Duncan, and relied...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 07, 2009
Starters with same agents could push prices
Buster Olney...a relatively small core group making up the second tier of free-agent starters who rank below John Lackey. Those would be Randy Wolf, Joel Pineiro, Jason Marquis, Vicente Padilla, Rich Harden and Brad Penny...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 05, 2009
Roberto Alomar's brilliance still on display
Buster Olney...league baseball field, when infielders make plays that Alomar all but invented and popularized. A shortstop, like John McDonald, goes to his right to glove a ball and suddenly slides to a stop -- like he...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 02, 2009
Orioles' pieces starting to fall in place
Buster OlneyIt 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 26, 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
Type A positive (and negative)
Buster Olney...to the Type A albatross. Wagner is 38 years old and only 17 appearances removed from Tommy John surgery, and more than a dozen other closer candidates probably are available for teams to consider. Wagner...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2009
Cashman casts praise far and wide
Buster OlneyAs the Yankees' players hopped happily in the middle of the infield late Wednesday, in the first moments after winning the World Series, plastic glass...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2009
Winter market forecast: A flood of non-tenders
Buster Olney...is already going to be a large and lackluster free-agent class. The elite free agents like John Lackey, Matt Holliday and Jason Bay are going to be paid well (although perhaps not anywhere near...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 31, 2009
A game filled with crossroads
Buster Olney...for them, Stan Hochman writes. Seasoned umpires will be working the World Series.) Top of the sixth: John Lackey, the Angels' starter, is cruising, dominating the Yankees with his breaking pitches, using them more than...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2009
Top 10 matchups of the LCS
Buster OlneyHere's what I see as the top 10 matchups of the league championship series: The Dodgers' left-handed relievers versus the Phillies' left-handed hitte...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 15, 2009
A "Major League" move by the Padres
Buster Olney...review the events of the past 15 months in San Diego: With the divorce of Padres owner John Moores getting very ugly, the team's front office was ordered to do a "Friday The 13th...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 03, 2009
Type A positive
Buster Olney...for them; the list includes Orlando Cabrera, Mark DeRosa, Mike Gonzalez, Vladimir Guerrero, Rich Harden, Matt Holliday, John Lackey, Bengie Molina, Placido Polanco, Marco Scutaro, Miguel Tejada, Randy Wolf, and many more: Bobby Abreu, Angels...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 02, 2009
For one night, Ordonez worth the cost
Buster Olney...battle, Tom Gage writes. Said Ron Gardenhire of Verlander: "He's a stud." Why Verlander won, from John Fisher and Matt Lyon of ESPN Stats & Information: It was his sixth start this season with...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 30, 2009
Baseball could soon lose a giant
Buster Olney...will lose a giant, no matter the circumstances. Only three managers have won more games -- Connie Mack, John McGraw and Tony La Russa -- and Cox has managed in more postseasons (15) than any other manager...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2009
A somber celebration in Detroit
Buster OlneyErnie Harwell will chat with his extended family tonight, from a baseball field in Detroit, and Al Kaline has a pretty good idea of what he will say. ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 16, 2009
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