The market for Miguel Cabrera
Buster Olney...teams, such as the Yankees, have the money but don't have the need; the Yankees have Mark Teixeira and A-Rod locked into long-term deals on the corners. The Brewers, just for example...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 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
Greinke takes Cy Young lead!
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Roy Halladay won and Foulke finished seventh. • Also in '03, the Predictor predicted that Mark Prior would win; instead closer Eric Gagne won and Prior finished third. • In 2004, the Predictor...
Blog | September 23, 2009Harper and others compete at trials
Keith Law...205 pounds already with a little projection left. One scout liked the stuff and the thick "Mark Prior" build, but disliked the arm action and thinks it puts too much stress on his elbow...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 21, 2009
Fixing what ain't (necessarily) broke
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIn The New York Times last weekend, Dan Rosenheck wrote about proposals to change the draft. Money quote: The real reason the anti-Boras rants pick ...
Blog | August 28, 2009Strasburg, Nationals need each other
Peter Gammons...the greatest offer ever made, greater than the record $10.5 million the Cubs gave Mark Prior in 2001. Of course, since MLB revenues have more than doubled in the last eight years...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 17, 2009
Five reasons to love baseball
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...keeps batting, and the only thing the defense can do is put in a new pitcher. Mark Prior makes way for Kyle Farnsworth who makes way for Mike Remlinger, all on the hope that...
Blog | August 07, 2009Cubs fumbling first-round picks?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...haven't done much with their first-round draft picks since 2001, when they snagged Mark Prior with the second overall pick. Since then, though? The average bust rate for first round picks...
Blog | June 12, 2009Best pitching prospect(s), ever
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...a bum shoulder. No one took McDonald's consensus best-ever tag until 2001, when Mark Prior of the University of Southern California was such a steely-eyed, bazooka-armed, strike-throwing machine...
Blog | June 08, 2009Strasburg makes his case (again)
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...some point as the greatest college pitcher ever. Just in recent years we've seen Mark Prior and Bryan Bullington and Jered Weaver and Luke Hochevar ... It's not that they shouldn...
Blog | May 11, 2009The Right Move
Sahadev Sharma...near its peak. Some recent examples off the top of my head would be Rich Hill, Mark Prior, Corey Patterson and Felix Pie. But this time Hendry struck while the iron was hot and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 02, 2009CIF Division II Football Preview
CalHiSports.com...Division III in San Diego. Both offenses are potent, but Cathedral's may be more healthy. By Mark Tennis & Steve Brand From the North: St. Mary's (Stockton) 12-2 Head Coach: Tony Franks...
Blog Entry | December 19, 2008Trade deadline ripples
Buster OlneySome rippling after the trade deadline: The Padres had to trade Jake Peavy lest they run the risk of having one guy take up 30 to 40 percent of their...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 02, 2009
Diary of a doubleheader
Nick Friedell1:20 p.m.: Happy Mark Buehrle Day, everybody! It's cloudy in the Windy City today, but it's going to be...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 30, 2009A cheap Halladay alternative
Buster OlneyHere are the statistical lines for two starting pitchers, compiled over a season: Pitcher A: 132 innings, 124 hits, 2.73 ERA, 17 walks, 113 strikeou...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 21, 2009
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