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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

Cleveland, Washington should consider Valentine

Buster Olney

Bobby Valentine's first full season as manager of the Mets was 1997, a year in which I took a job with The New York Times, and I covered him for just ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 04, 2009

Kiss 'Em Goodbye: S.F. Giants

Buster Olney, Baseball Prospectus and Insider staff, ESPN Insider

Insider and Baseball Prospectus collaborate to dissect the demise of the 2009 San Francisco Giants, who have arguably the best 1-2 pitching punch in all of baseball -- and a destructively anemic offense.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | October 02, 2009

The catch heard 'round the Rockies

Buster Olney

There were no tangible advantages working in favor of Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes in the ninth inning late Sunday afternoon as he turned to pu...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 28, 2009

Baseball could soon lose a giant

Buster Olney

Bobby Cox first mentioned walking away from baseball in the spring of 2008, and when word of this reached Gene Michael, a former teammate and longtime...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2009

Cracks in the AL contenders

Buster Olney

The count was full, the bases were loaded and Brian Fuentes fired a fastball at the lowest part of the strike zone Wednesday night, and when home plat...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 17, 2009

Kiss 'Em Goodbye: Milwaukee Brewers

Buster Olney, Baseball Prospectus and Insider staff, ESPN Insider

Insider and Baseball Prospectus collaborate to dissect the demise of the Milwaukee Brewers, who -- despite a slugging young core -- fell completely out of the NL Central race.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | September 17, 2009

PTI : Rockies/Giants Wild Card

Is tonight's Colorado Rockies game a must win against the Giants as they barely hold the NL Wild Card lead?

ESPN Insider Video | September 16, 2009

De La Rosa's, Cain's styles differ

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Colorado sends Jorge De La Rosa to the mound to face the San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain on Wednesday.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | September 15, 2009

Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis

Buster Olney

Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin wrote in an e-mail posted here Monday that Trevor Hoffman is the Cal Ripken of pitchers, in the way that he prep...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2009

Giambi helps keep Rockies relaxed, rolling

Buster Olney

Maybe it is Yorvit Torrealba who has earned the honor of wearing Jason Giambi's Golden Thong, after Torrealba's ninth-inning three-run double gave the...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 12, 2009

Jeter could ride high heat to record

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Derek Jeter needs one more hit to pass Lou Gehrig, and he could get it against Chris Tillman and the Orioles.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | September 10, 2009

Zito bolsters Giants' wild-card push

Buster Olney

...he would merely be dropped to the back of a group that included Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain. Remember how poorly it started this year? At the end of April, Zito was 0-2...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 30, 2009

Three Strikes: Break up the Rockies edition

Jayson Stark

STRIKE ONE -- CAN'T STOP THE ROCK DEPT. I was talking about those rampaging Colorado Rockies this week with an executive of another club. And he got ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 27, 2009

ATH : Earned a Spot in Rotation?

Has Jonathan Sanchez earned a spot in the Giants pitching rotation?

ESPN Insider Video | July 13, 2009