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Friday, May 4th, 2012
It has been a really tough year for Chicago Cubs closer Carlos Marmol. The 29-year-old has already blown two saves and has looked generally awful in doing so. Now, he has lost his job.
Cubs manager Dale Sveum called Marmol into his office before Friday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
If 2010 was the Year of the Pitcher in baseball, it looks like 2012 is shaping into the Year of the Geezer.
History was made on Tuesday by a pair of guys old enough to know a whole lot of history, as Jason Giambi of the Rockies and Chipper Jones of ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
San Francisco Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt might want to spend his time away from the ballpark in a bubble.
Seriously.
In September, Affeldt sliced his non-throwing hand to the bone while separating frozen hamburgers (has happened to the best of us). But now, Affeldt's home life has injured him again.
The left-hander sprained ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
New York Mets third baseman David Wright has had a rough past few seasons, battling injuries and a team that has essentially fallen apart around him. But on Wednesday night the 29-year-old finally had a reason to celebrate, as he broke the franchise's all-time record for runs batted in.
In a ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Remember before last season when experts were all lauding the job the Kansas City Royals had done compiling the consensus No. 1 farm system in all of baseball? Apparently that doesn't actually translate into wins on the field.
So far in 2012, the Royals have shown themselves to be old-school bad. ...
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