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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
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
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
Cashman casts praise far and wide
Buster Olney...happily in the middle of the infield late Wednesday, in the first moments after winning the World Series, plastic glasses were dispensed in the suite of general manager Brian Cashman. There were about 20...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2009
Hermida'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
What to watch for in Game 6 of the ALCS
Buster Olney...Joe Saunders and Andy Pettitte, the starting pitchers. Both threw effectively in no-decisions earlier in this series: Saunders needed only 67 pitches to get through his final five innings of work in Game 2...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 24, 2009
A game filled with crossroads
Buster Olney...book on umpires feels badly 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2009
Who will take the fall?
Buster Olney, ESPN The MagazineClutch players make or break any MLB team's postseason run. Buster Olney examines which traits are key in being a clutch performer in October.
Story | Conversation | October 20, 2009
Sabathia giving Yankees whatever they need
Buster Olney...have embraced the Steinbrenner Doctrine that you are a failure if you don't win the World Series. Everything that Sabathia has accomplished to this point would be flushed if the Yankees suddenly slumped...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2009
How the Yankees can slow the Angels
Buster Olney...Why don't we start preparing for them now, rather than waiting two days before [a playoff series]?'" Eiland said. This one has been on the Yanks' mind for a while, no? To keep reading...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 16, 2009
Cleveland, Washington should consider Valentine
Buster Olney...Eric Wedge is not the reason the Indians went from coming within one game of the World Series in 2007 to winning 81 games in 2008 to flirting with 100 losses this year. Travis...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 04, 2009
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