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NEW YORK — The Yankees can dream about a perfect summer day in the Bronx. A former All-Star — now just 25, maybe not firing his fastball at 98 mph anymore, but still filthy at 95 — goes seven dominant innings. A reliever, now just 23, comes in for the eighth dispensing lightning bolts from […]
Continue readingExpect Yankees to go globetrotting
NEW YORK — When it comes to player development, there is still one area in which the Yankees can exert their fiscal dominance: the international market. Unlike the amateur draft, in which a team like the Yankees is often victimized by its own success with a series of low draft picks, the Yankees’ dollar is […]
Continue readingBraves’ pitching plan a throwback to their glory days
The educational process has come full circle now that Glavine, Greg Maddux and John Smoltz have graduated to Cooperstown and Miller is the leader of a new Atlanta staff filled with enthusiastic 20-somethings. He is both inspired and humbled by the history he’s trying to perpetuate. “We all want to be great, but I can’t […]
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