Excruciating late-spring injuries

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Talent evaluators who saw the Mets this spring have some questions about the depth of the team's rotation, and on Friday, Victor Zambrano went down with an injury. Pedro Martinez had a rough final tune-up. The good news is that there are serious questions about every National League team.

• Gotten a lot of e-mails this week, in the aftermath of criticisms here of Major League Baseball and Bud Selig, asking about the reporters' role in The Steroid Era and whether we were complicit. Wrote again, within an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times today, about how I think I blew the story.  
 

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    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 the Yankees ('98-2001). Olney joined ESPN The Magazine in 2003, after six years at The New York Times, and he's the author of the Times' best-seller "The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty," a book about the Paul O'Neill-Tino Martinez Yankees dynasty of 1996-01.

    He grew up in central Vermont collecting baseball cards and listening to Red Sox, Expos, Phillies and Pirates radio broadcasts, and was a rabid fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He graduated from Vanderbilt University the same year as hoops legend Will Perdue, and ranks among the all-time leading scorers in pickup basketball at Memorial Gym. He claims to have witnessed the Commodores' winning football season in 1982 (although anthropologists have not yet confirmed this).

    Olney also contributes to ESPN.com, ESPN Radio, ESPNEWS, "SportsCenter" and "Baseball Tonight."

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