For one night, Ordonez worth the cost
Buster OlneyIt's too bad there isn't a transcript of the conversation that took place sometime this summer between Detroit Tigers owner Mike Ilitch and his baseba...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 30, 2009
Boston velocity versus Anaheim speed
Buster Olney...on-base percentage. It remains to be seen how sound the Boston pitching is, of course, with Josh Beckett having been scratched because of back spasms Monday, and with Jon Lester on the mend after...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 2009
Duensing among unlikely September stars
Buster OlneyThe crises come daily in the pennant races, and all the stuff that really matters at the outset of spring training -- pedigree, salary, past statistic...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2009
Cracks in the AL contenders
Buster Olney...out how to do damage control once a couple of guys get on base against him, and Josh Beckett has been pitching in the lower third of the strike zone in recent starts, rather than...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 17, 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
The productive plunkers
Buster OlneyBuck Showalter walked over to the rest of the "Baseball Tonight" pod in Bristol on Thursday night holding a stat sheet in his hand and bearing the kin...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 14, 2009
Money for nothin'
Buster OlneyThe largest pure salary dump in Major League Baseball history was concluded Monday evening, when Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi info...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 11, 2009
Baseball's week of U-turns
Buster Olney...cleaned up its outfield play." Since the Morgan trade, the team's offensive production has increased, Tracee Hamilton writes. Terry Francona called a team meeting before Sunday's game, Sean McAdam writes, and talked about...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009
Smoltz and Sox face difficult decisions
Buster OlneyAll Boston manager Terry Francona could do was to try to contain the damage the Yankees had done to John Smoltz in the fourth inning Thursday night. A...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 07, 2009
Buehrle's near-perfection, punctuated
Buster OlneyThe tension in the Metrodome thickened in the bottom of the sixth inning Tuesday night. And after Carlos Gomez fouled out and Nick Punto grounded out,...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 29, 2009
The Hall should preserve history, not dodge it
Buster OlneyThe day after Bill Madden wrote a story saying commissioner Bud Selig was thinking seriously about reinstating Pete Rose, there is another story from ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 28, 2009
Why Rose can't escape himself
Buster OlneyMLB commissioner Bud Selig is said to be seriously mulling a pardon for Pete Rose, Bill Madden writes. A pardon would clear the way for Rose to make i...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 27, 2009
Oakland's new Young Guns
Buster Olney...of work together before -- in Midland, Texas, to be precise. Trevor Cahill, Brett Anderson, Vin Mazzaro and Josh Outman all pitched together in Double-A, and back then they'd shut down the RoughRiders and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 08, 2009
Sources: Dellucci hopes to play in Texas
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineDavid Dellucci, cut loose recently by the Cleveland Indians, is interested in returning to the Texas Rangers, a team for which he played two seasons earlier in his career, according to sources.
Story | Conversation | June 08, 2009Some young arms could crack A's rotation
Buster OlneyWhen spring training began, the odds of Brett Anderson and/or Trevor Cahill and/or Vin Mazzaro being part of the Oakland Athletics' rotation on April ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 11, 2009
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