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There’s always a few sets of brothers kicking around Major League Baseball. The LaRoches back when Andy was able to make a 40-man, the extremely weird Giles brothers a bit before that; the Drews (J.D., Stephen, and Tim), the Aybars (Erick and Willy) and the Izturii (Cesar and Maicer) -- then back through history, the Cansecos, the Ripkens and the Roenickes, the DiMaggios, the Lieters, the Larkins and the Delahantys (there were actually five Delahanty boys in the pros, which is the most in one clutch by my count: Ed, Frank, Jim, Joe, and Tom). And this is hardly an exhaustive list. If you haven’t thought of at least two sets of brothers I’ve omitted already, I question your dedication to this life of useless trivia called baseball.
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Howard Bryant has an article in ESPN the Magazine about expanded replay and some of its potential worrisome unintended consequences. It’s a good piece, noting the untenable nature of the league’s traditional insistence... more »
his year's free agent class, a function of teams having the money and smarts to buy out some free agent years of their best young players, thus keeping them off the market in their prime. But the market is rich in choices when... more »
Catchers have a different perspective. Of course they do. They play a position different from all others, not only because they face that-a-way. Their position is about-face ... and stretching the strike zone, strategizing with... more »
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