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Tigers, Twins and my award picks

Buster Olney

Carl Pavano seemed almost out of breath Sunday night, naturally, at the end of a day in which he and the Twins had won a game they had to win, after t...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2009

For one night, Ordonez worth the cost

Buster Olney

It'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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 30, 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

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

Why Rose can't escape himself

Buster Olney

MLB 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 27, 2009

BP Daily: Desperately seeking Rickey

Jay Jaffe, Baseball Prospectus

There likely will never be another player like Rickey Henderson statistically. Baseball Prospectus looks at the current game and finds that no one is really close, but names such as Brian Roberts, B.J. Upton and Johnny Damon fall into the discussion.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | July 24, 2009

Practically un-bee-lievable

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

A swarm of bees at Petco Park. A flock of sea gulls at Progressive Field. A Nat with almost as many homers as his team has wins. Yeah, it's been one bizarre first half, for sure.

Story | Conversation | July 10, 2009

Signability still an MLB draft trump card

When the "Baseball Tonight" producers turned the mikes on for Keith Law and Aaron Fitt of Baseball America on Tuesday night and asked them about possi...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 10, 2009

Full Massmomentum rankings

AJ Mass, ESPN.com

AJ Mass has the full list of his Massmomentum rankings.

Story | Conversation | May 07, 2009

BP Daily: Projected NL standings

Jay Jaffe, Baseball Prospectus

Our projections for this year's National League standings aren't likely to receive much brotherly love from Philadelphia, the home of the defending World Series champions.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | April 02, 2009

Spring Training Blog: March 2

CONTRERAS, COLON CONTINUE COMEBACKS (9:31 p.m. ET) With general manager Ken Williams, pitching coach Don Cooper and manager Ozzie Guillen all looking...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 02, 2009

BP Daily: The worst free agent deals

Christina Kahrl, Baseball Prospectus

Let's look at the worst one-year, two-year, and three-year contracts, capped by the worst deal of the winter for its length, expense, and likely return.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | February 19, 2009

Angels tickled to have Abreu in lineup

ESPN.com news services

The Los Angeles Angels have agreed to a one-year contract with outfielder Bobby Abreu, adding some pop to a lineup that struggled scoring runs last season.

Story | Conversation | February 12, 2009

A LOOK BACK WITH ... MAG BASEBALL EDITOR JON SCHER

Jon Scher

[Ed's note: All week, we're recapping the 2008 MLB season. Enjoy.] Jon Scher is a senior editor at ESPN The Magazine. While he edits a variety of con...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2008

How to fix each MLB team for fantasy purposes

Eric Karabell, ESPN.com

Eric Karabell has suggestions for all 30 MLB teams on how to maximize their players for fantasy purposes.

Story | Conversation | April 10, 2008