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Some top-rated Rookies will be heard from in 2009: Rays' pitcher David Price, Orioles' catcher Matt Wieters, Rockies' outfielder Dexter Fowler and Brewers' third baseman Mat Gamel are ready to make an impact in the major leagues
ANY EVALUATION OF THIS YEAR'S rookie crop has to start with David Price, whose "electric" left arm helped the Tampa Bay Rays repel the resurgent...
Baseball Digest, 03/01/09 by George Vass · More from publication -
2008 All-Star Rookie Team: top first-year players include Evan Longoria of the Rays, Geovany Soto of the Cubs, Joey Votto of the Reds and Jacoby Ellsbury of the Red Sox
IT'S HIGHLY PROBABLE THAT SOME OF the eight teams which reached the first round of the post-season jamboree called the playoffs last October would...
Baseball Digest, 01/01/09 by George Vass · More from publication -
Baseball's ultimate game: no. 7: nothing compares to the excitement of a League Championship series or World Series title coming to a conclusion in the seventh and final contest
THE MAGIC NUMBER? It's "7" although not in the dice game of craps but as in Major League Baseball's supreme challenges, Games 7 of those League...
Baseball Digest, 10/01/08 by George Vass · More from publication -
Instant replay may take away humorous on-field disputes: with television reviews questioning calls, laughable arguments among umpires, players, managers and coaches could become extinct
AN UMPIRE'S LOT, LIKE THAT OF A policeman, has never been a completely happy one, to paraphrase the lyrics of an old song devoted to officers of...
Baseball Digest, 09/01/08 by George Vass · More from publication -
Stars who played: entire careers with one team: they include such notable performers as Brooks Robinson, Mike Schmidt, Ted Williams, Craig Biggio and Cal Ripken
IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER OR not the 3,060 base hits Craig Biggio banged out during a 20-year major league career stretching from 1988 through...
Baseball Digest, 08/01/08 by George Vass · More from publication -
Not as prevalent in major leagues as they once were in the past
OZZIE GUILLEN IS SOMETHING OF A wordsmith although it's doubtful whether many of the nouns, adjectives, verbs, expletives and other parts of speech...
Baseball Digest, 07/01/08 by George Vass · More from publication -
Hall of Fame's future dilemma—who belongs and who doesn't: the standards for ranking players among the game's elite have always come into question, but in coming years they will be under more scrutiny
IT'S GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD AND confirmed by the unexpected and often astonishing happenings of every season that there are few, if any, sure bets...
Baseball Digest, 06/01/08 by George Vass · More from publication -
Strange injuries have plagued players and teams: from violent sneezes to crazy off-field antics, many major leaguers have suffered unusual mishaps
IT'S NO GAME FOR SISSIES. WHILE baseball may not be equally hazardous to football when it comes to the incidence of damage resulting from physical...
Baseball Digest, 05/01/08 by George Vass · More from publication -
Some promising rookies look to take center stage in 2008: outfielders Jacoby Ellsbury of the Red Sox, Cameron Maybin, Marlins, catcher Geovany Soto, Cubs and pitchers Joba Chamberlain, Yankees, and Gio Gonzalez, A's, expected to see plenty of action
IT'S A TIME-HONORED PRACTICE, BUT the trading of highly regarded prospects for firmly established major league players was probably never as...
Baseball Digest, 03/01/08 by George Vass · More from publication -
The majors' top first-year players in 2007: a solid team of young newcomers was headed by shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, second baseman Dustin Pedroia, third baseman Ryan Braun and outfielder Delmon Young
WHEN IT COMES TO ROOKIES, the race for recognition doesn't always go uncontested to the swiftest out of the starting blocks, even if the...
Baseball Digest, 01/01/08 by George Vass · More from publication
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