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Post-Chase odds and ends
Ryan McGee...came back to win another title in '75. • The New York Yankees won five consecutive World Series with Joe DiMaggio and company from 1949-53. • Hockey has had two four-time champs...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 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
Three Strikes -- Mailbag edition
Jayson StarkHere's a confession I'm not proud of. I'm 8,800 e-mails behind in my uselessinfodept@yahoo.com inbox alone. And it sure isn't because I don't try. I'...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009
Marlins aren't your typical small-market team
Peter Gammons...09) Marlins Mets Record 577-556 564-569 Winning seasons 5 4 Postseason wins 11 6 World Series titles 1 0 Payroll $237M $817M Rookies of the Year 3 0 While you can go...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2009
Ynoa making progress
Jorge Arangure Jr.On Friday, heralded Oakland A's prospect Michael Ynoa, who was signed last year to a record $4.25 million bonus, will pitch in a game for the first ti...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2009
New ballpark sparks questions for Twins in 2010
Peter Gammons...had two consecutive nights of pure drama greater than Games 6 and 7 of the 1991 World Series, or had our hearing more impaired than in the 1987 World Series or watched a small...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2009
The Chicken Bone Section
Ryan McGeeAfter a brief hiatus, we now return you to the only place where rubber dust, carbon monoxide and Crisco combine to form a taste in one's mouth that on...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2009
Dr. Racy answers your questions
Ryan McGee...them more than he loves me. When Ford announced it would run the Mustang in the Nationwide Series in 2010, he didn't pay any attention to me for a week. When Dodge unveiled the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2009
Lackey's and Bay's markets emerge
Keith LawLast week the Hall of Fame announced the entries on its nonplayer ballot, which includes owners, umpires, executives, managers and longtime union head...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 2009
New-Bourn: Astros center fielder on the rise
Buster Olney...and as Little Leaguers they had chatted about playing major league baseball, about playing in the World Series. They shared that dream, and an ambitious work ethic. In the middle of the 2008 season...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 14, 2009
Perhaps the offseason bar set too high, too soon
Peter GammonsSo much for the general managers meetings, which began five days after the World Series and 10 days before the free-agency period opens. They're really the agents meetings, because...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 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
The (harsh) lessons of the GM meetings
Buster OlneyExecutives and agents packed their bags and boarded planes in Chicago, thinking about what they had seen and heard over the previous 48 hours, such as...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2009
The Spawn of 'Moneyball'
Buster OlneyAn American League executive, considered to be one of the best and brightest, chatted in the spring of 2008 about the résumés of the front-o...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009
Three Strikes -- Deadlines and dollars edition
Jayson Stark...ERA under 2.00 in three postseason starts or more. And his two wins in this World Series made him the first starting pitcher in 32 years -- and second in those four decades of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2009
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