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The first half of the baseball season didn't just confirm that 2010 was the Year of the Pitcher. It also raised the idea that we have entered the Era of the
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It used to be that athletes could remain iconic because they remained unknown enough. We filled in the vast blank expanses between the highlights and the
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Does baseball have an umpire problem? Is the tension worsening between umpires and players and managers, as Detroit manager Jim Leyland would have us believe?
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As managers of the All-Star Game next week, please accept my condolences. I know there are less painful ways that you could be spending your All-Star break.
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The strange decline of Adam Dunn continues. The White Sox have tried a team psychologist, minor league pitchers flown in to throw game speed practice pitches
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Look hard enough, however, between all the mediocre teams that are permitted to loiter around the pennant race and the lack of hitting in today's game and the
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"Geez, I hope my manager doesn't quit," Phillies GM Ruben Amaro joked about Charlie Manuel, the only manager left in the five-team division who has been at it
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The excitement is easy to see. Reyes leads the National League in batting, hits, triples and runs and is second in stolen bases -- making him the poster player
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Realignment remains little more than theory for now. Neither commissioner Bud Selig nor his 14-man special committee has studied the idea, and there have been
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The 2007 Yankees gave almost half their starts to pitchers 35 and older, struck out fewer batters than all but two other AL teams and lost the Division Series
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So judgment on the 2011 draft will have to wait. Especially deep in pitching, it could eventually rival the 2002 draft for producing major league mound talent
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When the Red Sox invested $103 million to get Daisuke Matsuzaka before the 2007 season, they and Scott Boras, the agent for Matsuzaka, knew they were getting a
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The Twins are toast and the baseball season in Chicago is virtually over. Harsh as that may sound before summer has even arrived, history tells us nothing
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Hayes, the Marlins rookie, gave his shoulder and Santana, the Cleveland backstop, his knee last year to the hazards of catching -- and specifically, to
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What does it mean for the baseball operations? In the short term, the Mets likely will cut payroll next year by about 30 percent and give a voice to a new
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Tigers manager Jim Leyland was on to something when he said interleague play, now in Year 15, has "run its course." The Detroit skipper was wrong, however,
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The 2010 American League strikeout champion is just one strikeout short of leading the league in punchouts again. Yet Jered Weaver may have one odd profile for
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Jimenez was shaky again Thursday against the Mets at home, failing to get out of the fourth inning. He threw 46 fastballs, only one of which was good enough to
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There have been 72 shutouts thrown already this season, a pace that would leave baseball with more shutouts this year than in any year but two: 1968 and 1972,
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