On Baseball: Drafted and Thrown Into Duty
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Detroitâs Andrew Miller and the Yankeesâ Joba Chamberlain are among four players from the 2006 draft who are playing in the major leagues.
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Throughout baseball history, special athletes have demanded and deserved special treatment. Barry Bonds. Babe Ruth. Mickey Mantle.
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New data gives a peek into how the players are posed to do.
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Attention. Attention. On the subject of drug testing, Major League Baseball wishes to announce it is now joining the 20th century. And only five years late. But do we quibble at this point or applaud? The sport made a genuine move on steroids. Too bad it required a scandal, threats from Congress and many ill-gotten numbers, to force the issue.
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The Washington Nationals have identified their two most important offseason decisions -- who to hire to replace ousted manager Frank Robinson, and whether to sign left fielder Alfonso Soriano. Team officials were apparently working on both fronts yesterday.
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After a pennant race and postseason dotted with reversed rulings, baseball will get another chance to see who else wants to give replay a look. The topic is on the agenda for Thursday at the GM meetings. And there seems to be growing support among teams to join the NFL, NBA and NHL in using instant replay on calls such as fair or foul and homer or not, but definitely not balls and strikes.
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One traditional baseball belief is that the last thing wanted is governmental interference in the sport&#39;s day-to-day operation.
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Heroics and heartbreaks, diving catches and basepath blunders, hot bats and bizarre slumps, rainy days and endless nights. Already an instant classic, a short story transformed into a great American League
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Losing fantasy owners: Aren't you glad you got A-Rod with the first or second overall pick?
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Baseballâs mass migration to Arizona for spring training is a development that would have been someoneâs spring fantasy a couple of decades ago.
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The development of some players in the 2006 draft and a 2007 draft that Baseball America ranked as the best in the game have helped transform the Nationals' farm system.
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He was never supposed to be in the big leagues, at least not as a pitcher. Brandon Backe grew up dreaming of hitting home runs. The Astros are fulfilling all kinds of fantasies these days.
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Baseball is about to be offered some much-needed help pulling its head out of the sand.
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Baseball's young guns take their place in the rotation
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Baseball players and other athletes use steroids for one reason -- they work.
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The split between the Reds and Barry Larkin left the club with two very big holes to fill. The obvious one is at shortstop. The less obvious one is in the clubhouse - where he was the undisputed
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George Kottaras expects perfection from himself. That's not surprising. "I get down on myself," the catcher said last week in Pawtucket. "But that's how people are. You fail and you're like . . . I just get to the point where I get corrective actions going. This happens, so what do I have to do to correct ...