9 Results for tim connolly

Signing Mauer a percentage play

Buster Olney

There 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009

Cashman casts praise far and wide

Buster Olney

As the Yankees' players hopped happily in the middle of the infield late Wednesday, in the first moments after winning the World Series, plastic glass...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2009

The King becomes a craftsman

Buster Olney

It wasn't the optimal situation for a new pitching coach to get to know a star pitcher. In spring training, Felix Hernandez was away from the Mariners...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 25, 2009

Duensing among unlikely September stars

Buster Olney

The crises come daily in the pennant races, and all the stuff that really matters at the outset of spring training -- pedigree, salary, past statistic...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2009

Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis

Buster Olney

...from the days as the Memphis Chicks when a team rep would come into the clubhouse at Tim McCarver Stadium to address the visiting team and warn them not to walk alone in downtown Memphis...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2009

Why Holliday could end up a rental

Buster Olney

As 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 11, 2009

Why the Yankees are now firing on all cylinders

Buster Olney

*Following this post, Buster will be taking a one week break to work on another project, and perhaps even play some King of the Mountain. He'll be bac...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 15, 2009

Money for nothin'

Buster Olney

The largest pure salary dump in Major League Baseball history was concluded Monday evening, when Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi info...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 11, 2009

The Hall should preserve history, not dodge it

Buster Olney

The day after Bill Madden wrote a story saying commissioner Bud Selig was thinking seriously about reinstating Pete Rose, there is another story from ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 28, 2009