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

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

Focus on Texas catchers
The Rangers are one of the only teams with catching depth in Jarrod Saltalamacchia , Gerald Laird , Taylor Teagarden and Max Ramirez , and nearly eight teams have been trying to deal for one. The Yank...
MLB Trade Deadline | July 29, 2008

Red Sox focused on Brocail
The Red Sox are not talking about acquiring Miguel Tejada . Boston's talks have been about another Astros player, right-handed reliever Doug Brocail .
MLB Trade Deadline | July 29, 2008

Manny's all about the money
Everyone in the clubhouse knows the names. Joba Chamberlain (twice), Felix Hernandez (twice), Edinson Volquez , Justin Verlander -- pitchers that Manny Ramirez didn't feel quite right to face, be it a...
Peter Gammons | July 28, 2008

Cards favorites for Fuentes
• The Rockies want Anibal Sanchez and a prospect for Brian Fuentes . The Marlins will not give up Sanchez and are likely to pursue Seattle's Arthur Rhodes instead. The Cardinals, Angels and Rays...
MLB Trade Deadline | July 26, 2008

Hamilton an inspiration in so many ways
NEW YORK -- One of the best things about baseball is that someone else comes along and recreates being the hero. Out of the embers of the Black Sox scandal came Babe Ruth . As a nation regrouped betwe...
Peter Gammons | July 15, 2008

Cubs plan on adding pitcher
Carlos Zambrano threw 60 pitches in the bullpen Sunday afternoon and said "I feel so good I could pitch tonight." Actually, he will be back Friday. "I feel unbelievable," he said. "The ball was reall...
Peter Gammons | June 30, 2008

Biggest first-half surprises and disappointments
This week is the season's midpoint, a season that thus far has seen three managers fired in a week, two general managers dismissed (another body-slammed by a pitcher with a career 4.99 ERA) and the ga...
Peter Gammons | June 27, 2008

Firings aren't always the answer
It was the estimable Chicago columnist Bob Verdi who once wrote, "When a team is at the bottom, the problem is usually at the top." At the time, Verdi was referring to the 1970s Cubs, but his words ri...
Peter Gammons | June 23, 2008

Harden could be the big prize
Rich Harden … Indians general manager Mark Shapiro is doing the right thing, collecting due diligence should he decide that trading C.C. Sabathia will bring him more than two draft choices. Cle...
Peter Gammons | June 15, 2008

Remembering Tim Russert
Tim Russert was sitting at the home plate corner of the visitors dugout two and a half hours before the regular-season inauguration of the Nationals' new stadium and the opening of the 2008 baseball s...
Peter Gammons | June 14, 2008

Piniella's all about winning
There is one thing that I will never forget about Lou Piniella. Not Jerry Remy's single bouncing into his glove, or kicking his hat, or taking the Mariners to 116 wins. But the one play that defines h...
Peter Gammons | June 9, 2008

Good draft for African-Americans
In a week when an African-American became the Democratic nominee for president and the passing of Bo Diddley made the front page of the New York Times, baseball's draft promised a landscape change tha...
Peter Gammons | June 7, 2008

Three draft questions, answers
Here are three questions about the baseball draft: 1. ARE FIRST-ROUND PICKS GUARANTEES? No. Check the following decade of picks, which includes the first five selections, later first-rounders who m...
Peter Gammons | June 3, 2008

Catchers like Martin hard to find
Russell Martin has implored Joe Torre to let him play shortstop, maybe even in next Sunday's ESPN game with the Cubs. "It would be a dream come true," says Martin, a dream Dodger coaches have said i...
Peter Gammons | June 3, 2008

Church just proving he's human
We were in the Memphis airport headed for St. Louis for the 2007 season opener, and Jim Edmonds talked about his concussion, how tired he got, how he still couldn't drive a car for two hours without h...
Peter Gammons | May 31, 2008

Angels win with homegrown arms
When we awakened on May 28, the Angels' starting pitchers had won more games than any starting staff in the American League. And the two aces who combined for 37 wins last season -- John Lackey and Ke...
Peter Gammons | May 28, 2008

What we don't know about Mets
All we know on the morning after Willie Randolph's vote of confidence is that the Mets are 79-83 in their last 162 games. But there is so much we don't know because Randolph internalizes so much. W...
Peter Gammons | May 27, 2008

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