Peter Gammons

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Peter Gammons serves as a studio analyst on Baseball Tonight and Baseball 2Day. He also provides "Diamond Notes" and other reports for SportsCenter. Gammons has been a senior writer for ESPN The Mag since Dec. 1999 and contributes to ESPN.com.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame
To commemorate the 100-year anniversary of baseball's most famous tune, "Baseball Tonight" has asked nine popular musical artists to record a rendition of the song and engage in a battle of the bands. Each version will debut during "Baseball Tonight" at 10 p.m. ET and then be posted on this page.
June 15, 2008

It's not all doom and gloom in South Florida
Larry Beinfest and the Marlins took Chris Resop and traded him for Kevin Gregg . Two years and 61 saves later, they moved Gregg to the Cubs for Jose Ceda, a 21-year old right-handed reliever sought by...
Peter Gammons | Friday, November 21

Red Sox get power arm in exchange for Crisp
A.J. Burnett interests the Red Sox. He has great stuff. Stuff that plays in October interests a franchise for which October is an expectation. But while the Red Sox have talked to Burnett's agent, De...
Peter Gammons | Wednesday, November 19

Why so few NL MVP votes for Hanley Ramirez?
It's not as if the Marlins existed in another universe; their 84-77 record was a half-game better than the Dodgers', and they did it in the best division in the National League -- the division with th...
Peter Gammons | Monday, November 17

Only big names unaffected by economic climate
In Saturday's New York Times, a report that the Yankees opened the bidding on CC Sabathia at $140 million was juxtaposed with a story that in Austin, Minn., 13 restaurants have Spam on their menus. Th...
Peter Gammons | November 16, 2008

A's rebuilding starts with Holliday
Oakland owner Lew Wolff came to call Billy Beane "Chicken Little" because his general manager had a global view of the world economy and saw some of what was coming. So as Beane began rebuilding the A...
Peter Gammons | November 11, 2008

Mets to build around core players
The Mets don't have the kind of money everyone thinks, especially having to pay Billy Wagner $10M next season. They will spend to get a starter, a reliever and a bat to supplement Ryan Church in right...
Peter Gammons | November 4, 2008

Weather turns Series into worst ever
PHILADELPHIA -- Somewhere in the muck of Monday's episode of "The Perfect Storm Hits the World Series," the astute Julie Kicklighter texted, "the Trop doesn't look so bad right now." So true. Almost ...
Peter Gammons | October 29, 2008

Phils, Rays bullpens different yet dynamic
PHILADELPHIA -- If this World Series returns to St. Petersburg, it may -- with all due respect to Cole Hamels and James Shields -- turn into a bullpen series. Which is why it was so important that Bre...
Peter Gammons | October 24, 2008

For one night, Fenway's ghosts haunt Rays
BOSTON -- I walked three miles along the railroad tracks from Groton to Ayer, took the Boston and Maine Railroad train to North Station for 75 cents, took Charlie's MTA to Kenmore Square for a nickel,...
Peter Gammons | October 17, 2008

Red Sox believe they're not dead yet
BOSTON -- It might have been worse in 2004. At that point it was 12 months after the Aaron Boone homer, the Yankees were up 3-0 after a horrendous 19-8 loss in Game 3, and before the fourth game Kevin...
Peter Gammons | October 15, 2008

Rays better than originally thought
BOSTON -- Joe Maddon never whined about being in the jungle land with the New York and Boston money, or with Toronto's consistent strength. "I embraced it," he says, "because it forced us to deal with...
Peter Gammons | October 14, 2008

What October really needs
Now that the Angels are out, the team with the best record in baseball has won the World Series just twice in the 16 postseasons since baseball creatively went to the wild-card playoff format. If the ...
Peter Gammons | October 8, 2008

Eight thoughts about the postseason
There are so many things that are unknown before October arrives: How Yovani Gallardo comes back. How Takashi Saito throws. Whether Mike Lowell and J.D. Drew and Josh Beckett are healthy. How Troy Per...
Peter Gammons | September 30, 2008

Most indispensable players? Mauer and Lidge
The Justin Morneau - Dustin Pedroia MVP debate is for another day, as if we haven't been debating the term "valuable" for a half-century. Part of the MVP debates over the years has been whether it's f...
Peter Gammons | September 25, 2008

Gammons: Red Sox stick to their plan
Unlike the Yankees of late, the Red Sox are willing to make unpopular decisions to serve the long-term interests of the franchise.
Peter Gammons, Special to ESPN.com | September 16, 2008

Yost's gone, but Melvin blames himself
The Web site "Fire Ned Yost" will be happy. To be honest, the view from afar was that Ned Yost got increasingly tight as the fight for the wild card got tougher. But the day Yost got fired -- with le...
Peter Gammons | September 15, 2008

Dodgers ready to make a run at World Series?
Eight thoughts to consider with just two weeks left in the regular season: 1. The Dodgers have their best chance to win the World Series since the Reagan Administration. Remember, Jose Lima is t...
Peter Gammons | September 14, 2008

Five reasons the Mets are different this year
NEW YORK -- The reminders were everywhere, from the writings on the subway walls to the boos that carried across a Queens Sunday afternoon. Talk of 2007 -- seven games up, 17 games to play -- had come...
Peter Gammons | September 8, 2008

D-backs, Dodgers worth watching down the stretch
PHOENIX -- From a distance, the National League West is the breakdown lane, where the Diamondbacks and Dodgers prepared for this past weekend's showdown by being swept by the Padres and Nationals, dis...
Peter Gammons | September 1, 2008

Alvarez, Manny situations a mess
There are so many unfortunate elements to this Pedro Alvarez story: how a very good kid may spend years being booed as a mercenary in Pittsburgh, how it stains the hard work general manager Neal Hunti...
Peter Gammons | August 29, 2008

Teams spending money on draft choices
The draft signing deadline passed Friday with a clear message: an increasing number of general managers have convinced their owners that listening to the commissioner's office about slot payments only...
Peter Gammons | August 20, 2008

Rookie Soto a viable MVP candidate
The thought came out of nowhere. "You should," a Cubs player said, "be talking up Geovany Soto as the MVP. Think about it." A rookie catcher as MVP? "Take his position, take what our pitchers have do...
Peter Gammons | August 15, 2008

Cuban would be great fit to join Cubs' family
The sale of the Cubs hangs over Wrigley Field and under the refrain of "Go Cubs Go." Conventional thinking says Bud Selig will quilt together his selected group around John Canning ; after all, the la...
Peter Gammons | August 11, 2008

Hot Stove Cool Music
Peter Gammons | August 11, 2008

Five things I don't quite get
1. Why there is so much made of who hits behind whom, when it's who hits in front that counts. Keep your bases-empty stats. The definition of a rally is hitting with someone on base. David Ortiz can...
Peter Gammons | August 6, 2008

The deal that had to be done
The text message from Alex Cora came not long after the deal was done. "I am very sad," wrote Cora, one of the game's best and brightest people. "I am happy for him because he wanted it, but he is a g...
Peter Gammons | July 31, 2008

Manny deal 'close to dead'
A source close to the three-way negotiations involving Manny Ramirez says the deal is close to dead. Florida has reportedly asked Boston for a cash outlay beyond the $7 million to cover Ramirez's cont...
MLB Trade Deadline | July 31, 2008

Gammons: Manny deal complicated
As midnight approached Wednesday night on the East Coast, officials from the Marlins and Red Sox said a deal involving Manny Ramirez was not done. Indications from Pittsburgh were that the Pirates wer...
MLB Trade Deadline | July 30, 2008

Gammons: Manny talks ongoing
The Manny Ramirez trade conversations are expected to continue into Thursday, according to a source. Because it's a very complicated deal, involving a player who has the right to veto the trade and ot...
MLB Trade Deadline | July 30, 2008

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