Starters with same agents could push prices
Buster Olney...that he is signing with Seattle for less than $10 million a year tells you that the salaries for position players continue to come down. Figgins' contract is not good news for the second layer...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 05, 2009
Breaking down market moves and chatter
Buster OlneyLet's pick through some recent developments in the market … Item A: The Phillies know Placido Polanco from his days with the team earlier this...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 04, 2009
The Yankees' case for Halladay
Buster Olney...along, with (generally) two more years of major league service time. Both players will be eligible for salary arbitration for the first time after next season. Hughes, 23, is coming off a year in which...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2009
Roberto Alomar's brilliance still on display
Buster OlneyYou say you are young, and didn't see Roberto Alomar play? No problem. You get a chance to witness the brilliance of Roberto Alomar just about every ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 02, 2009
Cameron centered on the playoffs
Buster OlneyA longtime NL advance scout watched Mike Cameron late in the 2009 season and came away thinking that even at age 36, Cameron remains one of the game's...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 01, 2009
Orioles' pieces starting to fall in place
Buster Olney...so long as he is willing to take a large pay cut from his $14.8 million salary last season. 3. MacPhail thinks the market for late-inning relievers will develop slowly, but sounded confident...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 26, 2009
Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)
Buster Olney...free agents, and Wagner is 38 years old. But one executive speculated that Wagner could reduce his salary demands so far that some team -- in particular, a team that finished with one of the 15...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009
The market for Miguel Cabrera
Buster OlneyThe Tigers are in cost-cutting mode and they are willing to discuss a possible trade of Miguel Cabrera, writes Lynn Henning. Set aside, for a momen...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009
Signing Mauer a percentage play
Buster OlneyThere are a couple of Dodgers fans in Aberdeen, S.D., as I learned over the last week, and a lot of Orioles fans, because of the team's past minor lea...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009
Cash grab
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineDuring this winter's free agency and arbritration, good things won't come to those who wait.
Story | Conversation | November 20, 2009
The (harsh) lessons of the GM meetings
Buster Olney...indicated to other teams a willingness -- and rival executives are reading it as a plea -- to dump salary. Among the players said to be in play: Bronson Arroyo, Curtis Granderson, Edwin Jackson, Carlos Guillen, Brandon...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2009
The Spawn of 'Moneyball'
Buster Olney...you can understand why, given the blatant collusion that took place two decades ago and given how salaries are in decline. Two of the articles cited by Weiner were pieces written in this space. Look...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009
Seattle could land Lackey
Buster Olney...Seattle needs help in its rotation, behind Felix Hernandez, and the Mariners has had a boatload of salary come off their books. The team traded Jarrod Washburn ($10.35 million salary in '09) during the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 09, 2009
Cashman casts praise far and wide
Buster OlneyAs the Yankees' players hopped happily in the middle of the infield late Wednesday, in the first moments after winning the World Series, plastic glass...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2009
Hermida's move sure to be replicated
Buster Olney...to trade Teahen because they simply can't afford to keep him, even at the $5 million salary he is likely to earn next season. For the White Sox, or for the Yankees or the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009
EDITOR'S PICKS
...multi-million dollar contracts must play in order to take home what you make annually? ESPN's
Story | December 11, 2008
TOP SEARCHES IN NOVEMBER
Bowl Projections tops ESPN.com searches in November. Did "salaries" make the list?