A chip-cashing trade
Buster Olney...one of the great young power arms in the game, and there will be back-to-back days, inevitably, when right-handed hitters will struggle to muster half-decent swings against him and Justin Verlander...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 09, 2009
How teams can learn from the Marlins
Buster OlneyRicky Nolasco came into the season projected to be a leader of one of the best young rotations in the majors. On May 22, Nolasco gave up eight runs ov...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2009
Smoltz manufactures a comeback
Buster OlneyJohn Smoltz is a friend and golfing partner of Tiger Woods, which is hardly surprising, because the two men are similar in many ways. Both are superla...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 24, 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 15, 2009
Dodgers dropping back to pack
Buster OlneyI hated the Cincinnati Reds as a kid, because they were the Big Red Machine that seemed to zoom past my own favorite team, the Dodgers, giving me litt...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 09, 2009
The return of baseball's great divide
Buster Olney...roster] more quickly than they used to, which hurts their chances for sustained success. I think the days of the small-market teams going to the playoffs four out of five years are over, unless...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 04, 2009
Torii Hunter is of a rare breed
Buster Olney...1987, versus Cleveland) and Carney Lansford (on Sept. 1, 1979, at Cleveland). Hunter had a very good day, Mike DiGiovanna writes. Other Saturday notebook items • Justin Verlander, Edwin Jackson and Rick Porcello have combined...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 14, 2009
Moyer's pearls of wisdom
Buster OlneyThe gray in Jamie Moyer's hair is thickening above his ears. The man is 46 years old, after all, and he pitched to Tony Perez. When you stick around t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 19, 2009
Hamels among most indispensable players
Buster Olney...for Hamels to develop some kind of major structural issue. We'll see. Wrote here the other day that Joe Mauer is arguably the most indispensable player to his team in the majors, because of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 17, 2009
Don Long and maple bats, one year later
Buster OlneyDon Long, the hitting coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates, ventured over to the back fields at the Phillies' complex in Clearwater, Fla., on Friday after...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 14, 2009
Rays see room for improvement
Buster Olney...crowd stood there, murmuring, and soaked it all in. All things considered, it was a very slow day. But Carl Crawford took it all very seriously, as he tends to do. His hitting group led...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 24, 2009
Positions of interest among AL teams
Buster Olney...that the Red Sox could consider giving him days off against some hard-throwing righties, in addition...No. 5 slots in the rotation: Armando Galarraga, Zach Miner and a supposedly slimmer Dontrelle Willis. Kansas...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 04, 2009
Doctor says Griffey now in much better shape
Buster Olney...into him. Even if he's cheating, he has trouble catching up with a good fastball." Three days after he finished the playoffs with the White Sox, Griffey had surgery on the knee -- a cleanup...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 03, 2009
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