Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)
Buster Olney...baseball information these days, with the big turkeys still to come. Some smaller servings collected: When Roy Oswalt went through his back trouble last season, specialists recommended that he go through a regimen of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009
New-Bourn: Astros center fielder on the rise
Buster OlneyIt was as if Michael Bourn had been staring at the same math equation for months, knowing that the answer was right there in front of him. His batting...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 14, 2009
The Cy Young cases for Greinke and King Felix
Buster OlneyThis time of year, teams begin to include information in their media dispatches about their various candidates for major awards. The AL Cy Young Award...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2009
Why Holliday could end up a rental
Buster OlneyAs the summer's trade season played out, rival executives came away from conversations with the Cardinals believing St. Louis wasn't in position to ta...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 11, 2009
Derek Jeter's unbroken contract with fans
Buster OlneyDerek Jeter finished playing catch with Robinson Cano in front of the Yankees' dugout early Monday afternoon, about 10 minutes before the first pitch ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 08, 2009
The value of waiver warfare
Buster OlneyA friend of a general manager accepted an invitation to watch a game from the GM's private box this season, thinking how much fun it would be. The exp...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 02, 2009
Joe Torre's Straw man acquisition
Buster OlneyJoe Torre loved having Darryl Strawberry on his bench in the days when the two were manager and player with the New York Yankees. Strawberry didn't pl...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 01, 2009
Rays simply couldn't afford to keep Kazmir
Buster Olney...about 50 players in Major League Baseball, a group that includes Johan Santana and Alex Rodriguez and Roy Halladay and Manny Ramirez, a group that also Eric Byrnes and Jeff Suppan and Aaron Harang and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 29, 2009
Nine reasons this NYY-BOS series is pivotal
Buster OlneyThe Hype Meter runs at the highest level whenever the Red Sox and Yankees play, a 10 on a scale of 10 even when it's just a three-game series in April...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 06, 2009
The return of baseball's great divide
Buster Olney...to be on the verge of either locking down their payroll or scaling back, which is why Roy Halladay seems prepared to walk away as a free agent after next season. The Rays, the great...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 04, 2009
The biggest holes for trades to fill
Buster Olney...As of 9:30 a.m. ET Thursday, the Toronto Blue Jays had no active talks regarding Roy Halladay. The Dodgers again reached out to Toronto on Wednesday, but the two teams have not gotten...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 30, 2009
Buehrle's near-perfection, punctuated
Buster OlneyThe tension in the Metrodome thickened in the bottom of the sixth inning Tuesday night. And after Carlos Gomez fouled out and Nick Punto grounded out,...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 29, 2009
The familiar angle on Houston's surge
Buster Olney...slowly and then just take off. "I think it's because we've got older players," Roy Oswalt said over the phone on Saturday. "Young guys don't know how long the season is...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 20, 2009
Ranking the NL's easiest roads to the postseason
Buster OlneyHere's the ranking of strength of schedule in the second half in the NL. It's great news if you're a fan of the Brewers or the Dodgers or the Marlins,...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 18, 2009
Oakland's new Young Guns
Buster OlneyThey've done this kind of work together before -- in Midland, Texas, to be precise. Trevor Cahill, Brett Anderson, Vin Mazzaro and Josh Outman all pit...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 08, 2009
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