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
Three Strikes -- Cy Young edition
Jayson StarkStrike One -- Last Shall Be First Dept. Greinke Zack Greinke won a Cy Young Award Tuesday. Excellent choice. And the correct choice. It even to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 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
Three Strikes: History in the unmaking edition
Jayson Stark...since the three pitchers with the next-best ERAs in this "decade" -- Johan Santana (3.12), Roy Oswalt (3.23) and Brandon Webb (3.27) -- are all currently extremely unavailable to throw about 40...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 01, 2009
Kiss 'Em Goodbye: Houston Astros
Buster Olney, Baseball Prospectus and Insider staff, ESPN InsiderInsider and Baseball Prospectus collaborate to dissect the demise of the Houston Astros, who are desperately in need of an intervention.
Story | Conversation | September 23, 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
Three Strikes: Moyer heads to the bullpen
Jayson Stark...26) over the past two seasons than (among others) Josh Beckett, Carlos Zambrano, Justin Verlander and Roy Oswalt -- and the only left-handers with more wins than him in that time are Cliff Lee...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 11, 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
Headley an intriguing sleeper
Jason Grey, ESPN.comJason Grey digs deep for AL- and NL-only fantasy leaguers and offers players to pick up such as Chase Headley, who is starting to improve.
Story | Conversation | August 02, 2009
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