McGwire has a road map, but also a guide
Buster OlneyWe saw again Sunday night an example of how others have talked about their past use of performance-enhancing drugs and moved on. Yankees pitcher Andy ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 26, 2009
Tigers, Twins and my award picks
Buster OlneyCarl 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 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
Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis
Buster OlneyMilwaukee 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2009
Why Greinke should win the Cy Young
Buster OlneyBy the standards of a David Wells or Livan Hernandez or John Smoltz or Orlando Hernandez or Curt Schilling or Randy Johnson, Zack Greinke has yet to p...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 31, 2009
The familiar angle on Houston's surge
Buster OlneyThe Astros are 27-17 in their last 44 games, which is actually par for the course for Houston. Year after year, the Astros seem to start slowly and th...
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
30 is the new 40
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineIn the post-steroids era, the battle is on to stockpile the best young talent
Story | Conversation | July 14, 2009
The Manny Effect
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineThe use of banned substances by one player impacts many others. Would Manny even be in L.A. today minus steroids? Would the Cubs be world champs?
Story | Conversation | May 19, 2009Life experiences help Lindstrom
Buster Olney...Capozzi writes. • I asked some talent evaluators to offer their observations of Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman. Their responses: Talent evaluator No. 1: "I still like him as a solid, average major league...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 23, 2009
Deion Sanders' thoughts still heard years later
Buster OlneyLost in the fog of the A-Rod-palooza, I forgot a sacred blog tradition -- to kick off spring training by revisiting a story from many years ago. I do...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 22, 2009
A-Rod had better hope he's told the truth
Buster OlneyOn Tuesday, Alex Rodriguez offered up far more detail than Andy Pettitte and more substance than Jason Giambi, and he went way beyond where either Mar...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 18, 2009
A night to celebrate stars
Buster OlneyNew York's baseball writers dinner is an enormous event, with the major award winners on hand to accept their trophies. Willie Weinbaum, a colleague o...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 26, 2009
Nats, O's shouldn't be in hunt for Teixeira
Buster Olney...sense. A casual baseball fan might be able to identify perhaps one of the Nationals' players, Ryan Zimmerman, and so the franchise is looking for a signature star, someone with whom the fans can...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 15, 2008Why White Sox might want Rios
Buster OlneySome team has claimed Alex Rios on waivers and will know by early Tuesday afternoon whether he will become theirs, and there is lots of evidence that ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 08, 2009
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