Roberto Alomar's brilliance still on display
Buster Olney...league baseball field, when infielders make plays that Alomar all but invented and popularized. A shortstop, like John McDonald, goes to his right to glove a ball and suddenly slides to a stop -- like he...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 02, 2009
Marlins may handle Johnson as Indians did Lee
Buster Olney...Rays may reassign Jake McGee to their bullpen, writes Joe Smith, as he comes back from Tommy John surgery. 3. The Pirates' biggest splash could come in the Rule 5 draft, writes Dejan Kovacevic...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 29, 2009
The significance of the Mauer market
Buster OlneyThe agent for Joe Mauer wouldn't characterize the state of the catcher's negotiations with the Twins on Thursday, or discuss them in any way, which is...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009
Type A positive (and negative)
Buster Olney...to the Type A albatross. Wagner is 38 years old and only 17 appearances removed from Tommy John surgery, and more than a dozen other closer candidates probably are available for teams to consider...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2009
A game filled with crossroads
Buster Olney...for them, Stan Hochman writes. Seasoned umpires will be working the World Series.) Top of the sixth: John Lackey, the Angels' starter, is cruising, dominating the Yankees with his breaking pitches, using them more than...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2009
Rice swung and missed on Jeter
Buster OlneyOn a Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, I happened across a YES Network broadcast of Yankee Ron Guidry's 18-strikeout game against the California Ang...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2009
Money for nothin'
Buster OlneyThe largest pure salary dump in Major League Baseball history was concluded Monday evening, when Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi info...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 11, 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
Carmona shouldn't try so hard
Buster OlneyGOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Fausto Carmona threw at much less than maximum effort in his first official bullpen session of spring training Saturday, gliding ea...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 15, 2009
Positions of interest among AL teams
Buster Olney...best match him up. Chicago White Sox: Starting pitcher The White Sox are counting on Mark Buehrle, John Danks and Gavin Floyd to man three-fifths of their rotation, and they like what they've...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 04, 2009
No Payments 'Til 2007!
Buster OlneyThe Magazine's Buster Olney checks out baseball's risky marketplace and finds very few bargains and only one guarantee: Buyers, beware
Story | Conversation | October 15, 2008No payments 'til 2007
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineBuster Olney checks out baseball's risky marketplace and finds very few bargains and only one guarantee: Buyers, beware.
Story | Conversation | November 01, 2006
Around the American League
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineWhat must go right, what could go wrong? A team-by-team look at the American League.
Story | Conversation | February 14, 2005Hermida's move sure to be replicated
Buster OlneyThe latest seismic rumbling probably hit the baseball landscape early Thursday morning -- probably before all the champagne-soaked Yankees reached the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 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
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