Brandon Tierney: 11/11
Brandon dives into how the Mets and Yanks should attack free agency. NY Daily News' John Harper talks about the Mets not spending big. Nets GM Kiki Vandeweghe discesses the state of the...
Audio PodCast | November 11, 2009The Spawn of 'Moneyball'
Buster OlneyAn American League executive, considered to be one of the best and brightest, chatted in the spring of 2008 about the résumés of the front-o...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009
Obstacles to a World Series rematch
Buster OlneyCharlie Manuel quoted a general after Game 6, in pronouncing that the baseball world has not seen the last of the Phillies. "I'll tell you something -...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 05, 2009
Howard's slide-step hurting the Phillies
Buster OlneyThe great thing about the postseason, an evaluator noted the other day, is that you always find out what the real weaknesses of hitters are (or at lea...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 02, 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
The leftovers tell us a lot from Game 2
Buster OlneyIt has been a World Series of pitching so far, with the inevitable umpiring controversy sprinkled in. Some leftovers from Game 2: Mariano Rivera is ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 30, 2009
Lee's calm is the Yankees' storm
Buster OlneyWe are accustomed to seeing October tension reflected in the eyes of the pitchers. Orel Hershiser's eyes in 1988 were intense -- the Bulldog locked in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 29, 2009
McGwire has a road map, but also a guide
Buster Olney...a news conference and moved on, and now the monkey is off his champagne-soaked back, John Harper writes. Pettitte and Rodriguez have provided a possible road map for Mark McGwire to use as...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 26, 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
Replay for the World Series could work
Buster Olney...to throw out some silly red challenge flag -- just get it right. If an umpire such as John Hirshbeck were to oversee the replay booth during the World Series, he could be in communication with...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 22, 2009
A-Rod's adjustments may be paying off
Buster Olney...along the same path without change. --- A-Rod has gone from postseason failure to royalty, writes John Harper. A-Rod is rewriting his legacy, writes Mike Vaccaro. Some A-Rod numbers, by the count...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 21, 2009
Walk-off wisdom
Buster Olney...Girardi's strategy, notes on Dodgers-Phillies, signings and more, you must be an ESPN Insider. From John Fisher of ESPN Stats & Information, the top regular-season batting averages against fastballs: Earlier in the game...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 20, 2009
Sabathia giving Yankees whatever they need
Buster OlneyMargie Sabathia flew into New York the other day, and if she and her son held to family tradition late Friday night, they probably spent 15 or 20 minu...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2009
How the Yankees can slow the Angels
Buster OlneyThe Yankees' internal conversation about how to slow down the Angels' running game in this postseason started a little while back -- before spring tra...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 16, 2009
Francona managing by the numbers?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotJohn Harper on the surprise ending to the Red Sox's season: The Red Sox love their...
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