ESPN RISE All-Decade Baseball Team
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Story | Conversation | November 23, 2009Porcello's fastball will be his tell
Buster OlneyRick 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 06, 2009
Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars
Buster OlneyIt is still September and nine days of regular-season baseball remain, but the playoffs provided the context for everything that occurred at Yankee St...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 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
Seven possibilities for a Mets front man
Buster OlneyOrdinary news briefings have become public-relations disasters for the New York Mets, writes Ben Shpigel, and members of the team's ownership have end...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 27, 2009
The biggest holes for trades to fill
Buster OlneyWith 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 30, 2009
Complete 2009 draft results
ESPN.comCheck out which players were among the 1,521 selected in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, from Stephen Strasburg to Alibay Barkley.
Story | Conversation | June 09, 2009Hiring Hinch in line with Arizona's philosophy
There are only a handful of major league managers who are under contract through the 2012 season, and one of them is someone who, until Friday night, ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 09, 2009
Harden to be popular at deadline
...the offseason. Mike Hampton is prepared to return to the mound after 31½ months, as David O'Brien writes. FANTASY ON THE RISE • Wes Helms, third base: The Dodgers are looking for...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 03, 2008
No quick fixes for Detroit's bullpen
The Tigers looked for relievers at the end of spring training, their scouts poking around for good arms, club officials scanning the waiver wires. The...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 01, 2008
Reds reign as kings of spring
The usual suspects come out of spring training as favorites to win this year: The Red Sox, the Indians, the Yankees, the Cubs, the Mets, etc. But if y...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 26, 2008
Season-opening letdown
It was a long and brutal winter in baseball, a time when the most-discussed figures in the game were George Mitchell, Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee,...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 25, 2008
Change of scenery a good thing?
A major league executive mused the other day that he had put some thought into how to replicate the affects you get when a player moves from one team ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 22, 2008
Let Francona wear the pullover
Terry Francona prefers to wear a pullover to a traditional jersey because of a circulatory condition that almost killed him, and yet according to this...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 19, 2008
Evaluating Casey Kotchman
Casey Kotchman is coming off the best year of his career, at age 24, having hit .296 with 11 homers and a .372 on-base percentage. I asked three talen...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 12, 2008
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