On the diamond, a new wave of hurlers
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Baseball's young guns take their place in the rotation
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Mike Matheny, Edgar Renteria and the St. Louis Cardinals can win with singles, doubles and triples, too.
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Wade Miller wanted to play for a good team. Now he's part of a new-look Red Sox rotation that's deeper and cheaper than last year's.
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The odds are overwhelmingly against them. For every Abe Alvarez , who made a cameo at Fenway Park in July just 13 months after the Red Sox drafted him out of Long Beach State, there are dozens of top-rate college pitchers who will toil in the farm system and never reach the majors.
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Experienced, power-laden lineups and a favorite&#39;s role haven&#39;t been a winning combination for the Braves in recent postseaons.
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Steroid suspicions and superstars changing teams dominate baseball's storylines as clubs head to spring training.
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Even without Lastings Milledge, the Mets have had an impressive number of players who have spent an awful lot of time on the disabled list this season.
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They may never be mistaken for the boys from the Bronx as Boston&#39;s archrivals. But the Devil Rays picked up last night where the Yankees
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ItÂs possible, perhaps likely, that the best Pedro MartÃ­nez can bring to October now is five or six innings, like the rest of the Mets' well-worn rotation.
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Top stars make more than ever, but they raise the tide for the whole league.
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Nick Markakis enters the season as an established major leaguer, and the likely heir apparent to Cal Ripken Jr. as the franchise's next home-grown franchise player.
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Imagine a Marlins rotation next year of Carl Pavano, Al Leiter, AJ Burnett, Josh Beckett and Dontrelle Willis. At least the Marlins&#39; front office is thinking that way.
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It&#39;s time the celebrate the geriatric set once again, a couple of baseball&#39;s 40-plus guys who are raising the bar for players over the age of 35 in a way that hasn&#39;t been done before.
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Alex Rodriguez, Frank Thomas, Manny Ram&#xED;rez, and Jim Thome all could join the 500-home run club this season (with Gary Sheffield having an outside shot).
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Blog: ESPN.com's Peter Gammons found several major leaguers who had to find creative ways to get their hands on an iPhone without missing a game.
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The career arcs of two players, Todd Hundley and David Segui, vividly illustrated how the use of steroids spread through the major leagues.
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The argument could be made that Johnny Damon was the most productive leadoff man in the majors this season. At least among men not named Ichiro Suzuki. It was trend that continued in the American League Division Series against Anaheim.