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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Until last night, the batting slumps by Theo Epstein's two primary acquisitions of the winter (non-Daisuke Division), shortstop Julio Lugo and outfielder J.D. Drew, had reached stupefying levels. So had that of outfielder Coco Crisp, the player obtained by Epstein after a series of maneuvers that also left the Red Sox paying a sizable portion of the contract ...
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The market for over-40 pitchers will likely be enticing for teams looking to add the final piece to the rotation this offseason. After all, there will be no top-of-the-rotation starters available (short of Andy Pettitte leaving the Yankees), unless you consider Carlos Silva or Kyle Lohse of that ilk (and if you do, you probably won't be employed as a ...
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Starting pitchers are plentiful this off-season, more so probably than at any time during the 28 years of free agency.
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Curt Schilling and Pedro Martinez are revved up. Roger Clemens and Roy Oswalt are rarin' to go...
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Francisco Liriano piled up 10 more strikeouts, while Jered Weaver won without his best stuff. Two of the top pitchers in the American League are rookies, and both have been nearly unhittable all season.
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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 Yankees introduced a towering starting pitcher on Wednesday, though it was not the one that the baseball world had been waiting to see.
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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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As the shuffling of players intensifies this off-season, some of the Boston Red Sox' pictures will come down. The champions will have to change.
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Since the day after the Reds fired Jim Bowden and Bob Boone nearly 17 months ago, virtually all of the club&#39;s transactions have been geared toward raking in prospects and getting younger, especially on the pitcher&#39;s mound.
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With big-ticket free agents like Carlos Beltran, Richie Sexson and Carlos Delgado still on the market, baseball executives are playing wait-and-see.
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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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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's a relatively recent story, and a familiar one. The Red Sox had two big sluggers in the middle of their lineup -- one a lefthanded hitter, the other a righty, both .300 hitters, one a former MVP, one who would soon be named one. They were the linchpins of a Sox team that had high hopes of playing deep ...
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Baseball&#39;s 700 Club became a trinity of revered sluggers Friday night when Barry Bonds hit an opposite-field home run through a light breeze, a swirl of steroid rumors and the thunderous cheers of an adoring home crowd.
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Sammy Sosa joined an elite club, hitting his 600th home run against his former team. Meanwhile, two younger sluggers hit key home runs to rally baseball's hottest teams to victories.