Nats' Detwiler rediscovering his stuff
Keith Law...the 2007 draft (sixth overall) out of Missouri State, also the alma mater of Toronto starter Shaun Marcum. Detwiler suffered some velocity loss in 2008 that jeopardized his big league future, but on Wednesday...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 2009
Why the Jays didn't discard their ace
Peter Gammons...contract: Ricky Romero will have a stellar rookie season behind him; Brett Cecil has arrived; and Shaun Marcum, Jesse Litsch and Dustin McGowan will return from injury. Toronto will have plenty of arms to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 31, 2009
For A-Rod and Yanks, a slump brings whispers
The question ricochets among talent evaluators these days as they watch Alex Rodriguez take 4.7 seconds to run to first base, as ground balls scoot by...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 25, 2009
Blue Jays among those waiting for reinforcements
...Romero, recovering from an oblique strain, could pitch in the rotation by the end of May. Shaun Marcum, who underwent Tommy John surgery in September, will throw in a bullpen this week. If he...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 28, 2009
Is Pujols among the most perfect players … ever?
Tony La Russa might have the toughest job in all of baseball: On a daily basis, it is his responsibility to come up with new and different ways to des...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 24, 2009
Teams still searching for pitching help
Peter Gammons...But losing A.J. Burnett to free agency and now looking at opening the season without Shaun Marcum, Dustin McGowan and Casey Janssen, they have to hope that -- after Roy Halladay -- Jesse Litsch, David...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 27, 2009
Holliday likely to be next free-agent prize
Buster OlneyMatt Holliday is set to become a free agent in the fall, and Oakland will not re-sign him. For the Athletics, a team with a modest payroll, an investm...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 21, 2009
AL East becoming a pitching division
Peter Gammons...would be four teams and 90 wins if Toronto had A.J. Burnett, Dustin McGowan and Shaun Marcum. And it is pitching that has the Orioles thinking that in 2010 or 2011, they will...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 14, 2009
Positions of interest among AL teams
Buster OlneyIn putting together this list of the job situations that still need to be settled in the American League, I collaborated with the gang at Baseball Pro...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 04, 2009
Remembering Lyman Bostock
I never saw Lyman Bostock play, in person or on television. We didn't have a television, and we rarely left the county in Vermont where we lived, let ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 20, 2008
Brewers' crushing loss could have been avoided
Somebody loses a series in May and some young player talks about a particular defeat being a huge loss, and you think: Not really. You think: It's a l...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 19, 2008
Garza, Rays looking for breathing room
The Rays always seem to do what they need to do, and after their walk-off victory Tuesday, they now have a chance to create a little buffer between th...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 17, 2008
Future looks promising for Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays' 10-game winning streak came to an end, but Toronto remains in position to finish the season with something in the range of 86 t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 11, 2008
Cubs much different without Zambrano
The Cubs were under the impression that Carlos Zambrano was OK. He had insisted to the Cubs that he was fine, and he had told friends he had nothing m...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 03, 2008
Letting go of Chipper, McLouth, Tejada
Eric KarabellI knew as well as anyone that the joyous campaigns of Chipper Jones and Lance Berkman wouldn't continue at quite the same rate. One of my fantasy base...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 25, 2008
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