10 Results for patrick o sullivan

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

Porcello's fastball will be his tell

Buster Olney

Rick Porcello's fastball will be his tell Tuesday, a longtime scout said Monday. A poker player might betray something with the way he shifts in his c...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 06, 2009

Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars

Buster Olney

It is still September and nine days of regular-season baseball remain, but the playoffs provided the context for everything that occurred at Yankee St...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 2009

Duensing among unlikely September stars

Buster Olney

The crises come daily in the pennant races, and all the stuff that really matters at the outset of spring training -- pedigree, salary, past statistic...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2009

Seven possibilities for a Mets front man

Buster Olney

Ordinary news briefings have become public-relations disasters for the New York Mets, writes Ben Shpigel, and members of the team's ownership have end...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 27, 2009

The biggest holes for trades to fill

Buster Olney

With just one full day and a chunk of hours before the trade deadline, these are the biggest holes remaining for teams that have been looking for help...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 30, 2009

Schafer's big day encouraging for Atlanta

Buster Olney

The Braves took batting practice Saturday, and then Bobby Cox summoned Jordan Schafer into his office. The last two weeks had been an anxious time f...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009

Players need to show fans they care about them

Buster Olney

The labor strife of 1994-95 killed the game for nine months, and a World Series wasn't played for the first time since Theodore Roosevelt's administra...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | February 07, 2009

Torre cannot hide behind author

Buster Olney

Some of the Yankees who found themselves on the receiving end of Joe Torre's seething scowl called it "The Stare" -- his face tight, his mouth frozen ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | January 27, 2009

Sheets poster boy for unsettled offseason

Buster Olney

It wasn't that long ago when the Seattle Mariners gave Carlos Silva a four-year, $48 million deal, and it wasn't that long ago when Miguel Batista got...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | January 24, 2009