insider.espn.go.com - 11/6/2008
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Buster Olney Buster Olney is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He began covering baseball in 1989, as the Nashville Banner's beat reporter assigned to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. Later, he covered the San Diego Padres (1993-94), the Baltimore Orioles ('95-'96), the New York Mets ('97) and ...
insider.espn.go.com - 11/3/2008
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My first memories of the World Series, from
1973 and 1974, are vivid. I remember watching Willie...
Mays stare into the sun as he tried unsuccessfully to track a fly ball, then seeing him plead without success after a Mets teammate -- Bud Harrelson , I ...
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sports.espn.go.com - 11/6/2008
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Bud Selig spoke to Major League Baseball general
managers through the magic of video conferencing, like the...
Wizard of Oz speaking from behind a curtain, and the warning he gave them really isn't anything different than what they'd heard in the past. ...
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Mark Teixeira Rumors: Thursday
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According to ESPN's Buster Olney, the Nationals are preparing to make a significant offer to Mark Teixeira. Olney believes the Angels will make an offer in the $100-120MM range, but that offer will expire soon. If and when Scott Boras passes on that proposal, it might be the Yankees, Red Sox, Nationals, and Orioles competing for ...
Extension Talks For Webb Soon?
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According to Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic, the Diamondbacks haven't talked contract with Brandon Webb's agent, Jonathan Maurer, since the team pulled out of a June near-agreement for three years and $54MM. Maurer expects to hear from the D'Backs this winter, but the price has gone up. Webb isn't looking to set any records, ...
MLB Trade Rumors: The Washington Nationals And Mark Teixeira
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... While Giambi and Dunn look like possibilities to take more money to be a National than a competitive team would offer, the idea of the Nationals being serious bidders for the services of 1B Mark Teixeira strains plausibility. But Buster Olney of ESPN.com reported this: ...
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soxanddawgs.com 11/4/2008 — In Buster Olney’s latest blog post over at ESPN.com, he checks in with his thoughts on the Mark Teixeira sweepstakes. I won’t get into what he said about the other teams, just what he said about the Red Sox.
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sports.espn.go.com 1/4/2009 — Posted by Buster Olney It is strange, but true, that Andruw Jones' career is in jeopardy, even before he turns 32 years old. Even with the Dodgers restructuring his contract so that he is owed about $5 million for 2009, there does not seem to be any ...
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insider.espn.go.com 12/31/2008 — Posted by Buster Olney• The agent for Manny Ramirez has contacted the Dodgers and has reopened negotiations, Bill Shaikin writes. It will be fascinating to see how L.A.'s front office handles this situation because the executives must give some ...
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sports.espn.go.com 12/6/2008 — Posted by Buster Olney The Mets intend to present what they consider to be suitable offers to closer targets during the winter meetings. It's not known precisely what they will offer to which pitcher, but here is an educated guess: Francisco Rodriguez ...
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sports.espn.go.com 1/10/2009 — Posted by Buster Olney Some future Hall of Famers signed this week, but Bobby Abreu is still out of work, and so are Manny Ramirez , Pedro Martinez and Orlando Hudson . With a little more than a month to go until spring training begins, you could ...
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sports.espn.go.com 1/5/2009 — Posted by Buster Olney After the players' strike that began in August 1994 ended with a new Basic Agreement in early April 1995, an entire offseason of free-agent signings and trades and budget adjustments was crammed into the span of about three ...
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insider.espn.go.com 10/21/2008 — Jake Peavy has the power to block the Padres' efforts to trade him with the no-trade clause in his contract. For now, he is playing along, and has presented San Diego some guidelines. He'd prefer a National League team to an American League team ...
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insider.espn.go.com 1/12/2009 — • Michael Young told the Rangers he'd like to be traded , rather than play third base. This will put GM Jon Daniels in a very tough spot: Young will be extraordinarily difficult to trade because his salary is so high -- he is set to make $16 million ...
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insider.espn.go.com 1/17/2009 — • Speaking of politics: CC Sabathia and his wife Amber have tickets to the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama , and will attend some of the postinaugural events, as well.• Kris Benson is going to throw for scouts on Jan. 24, and in the week after ...
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SI.com - MLB 11/6/2008
These days everybody's a general manager. Everybody has an idea to pitch, a trade to consummate, a free agent to sign. We all have our own beliefs about how to build a winning team, about who's worth what for how long. I saw a blog a couple of weeks ...
