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			<title><![CDATA[Will DH Be Designated For Assignment?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...how many more dominant offensive players were there in the game? Bonds definitely. Bagwell, Gwynn and Frank Thomas possibly. But if you really look closely, I think you'd conclude Edgar was the most...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 16, 2009 06:30:29 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Revisiting Edgar Martinez]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...be considered. Hitters typically perform worse at D.H. than they do when playing the field. Frank Thomas, for example, had an O.P.S. 179 points lower as a designated hitter than as...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 07, 2009 16:08:22 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[4. Frank Thomas]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Although Thomas was gone after 2005, the slugger put together big seasons during the decade, including 2000 when he...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 04, 2009 10:25:29 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[8. Magglio Ordonez]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...was the top run producer in the first five years of the decade. He along with Frank Thomas, Carlos Lee and Paul Konerko formed a formidable White Sox run-producing unit from 2000-04...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 04, 2009 10:25:23 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Should Edgar be Hall's first DH?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...though, I'm convinced. He belongs. He wasn't nearly as valuable during his career as Frank Thomas or Jeff Bagwell, both of whom richly deserve enshrinement. But he was valuable enough]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 04, 2009 08:46:42 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fisking the Crime Dog's candidacy]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...them -- Lou Gehrig probably wasn't much of a fielder, and I would happily vote for Frank Thomas -- but I do think it's worth noting. --snip-- Dale Murphy is a different sort of...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 01, 2009 13:54:55 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vetting the BBWAA's Hall candidates]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...them -- Lou Gehrig probably wasn't much of a fielder, and I would happily vote for Frank Thomas -- but I do think it's worth noting. We still tend to overrate players who drive...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 30, 2009 14:10:47 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[My 2010 Hall of Fame ballot]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I don't have a ballot for the Hall of Fame yet -- just nine years to go -- but if I did, my ballot would include:



Tim Raines, Mark McGwire, Bert Bl...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 30, 2009 04:39:40 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So many teams are sitting back and waiting for the completion of the Type A free-agent and possible non-tender markets that there probably won't be a ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 25, 2009 01:56:38 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Three Strikes: Award-winning edition]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...leaderboard: Joe DiMaggio, 6. Yogi Berra, 6. Willie Mays, 6. Alex Rodriguez, 6. Mike Schmidt, 5. Frank Thomas, 5. Pretty amazing company -- for a man who hasn't even turned 30 yet. Strike Two...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 24, 2009 09:19:40 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[It's unanimous: Pujols is National League MVP]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Albert Pujols is the unanimous winner of the National League MVP award, becoming the first player to repeat since Barry Bonds won four in a row from 2001-04.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 24, 2009 08:04:37 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The market for Miguel Cabrera]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Tigers are in cost-cutting mode and they are willing to discuss a possible trade of Miguel Cabrera, writes Lynn Henning.



Set aside, for a momen...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 24, 2009 02:24:33 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Edgar's HOF chances]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last weekend former Seattle Mariners slugger Edgar Martinez, in an interview with the Puerto Rican newspaper Primera Hora during an autograph session ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 20, 2009 07:04:31 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hruby: Sports tell-all books]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin isn't the first person to write a tell-all book to get the last word, just take a look at the sports world.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 17, 2009 06:16:34 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Edgar representing for the DH's]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...who stand out as elite designated hitters, and that's Martinez and David Ortiz (I think Frank Thomas played enough first base in his career that DH won't count against him that much...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 09, 2009 16:50:26 PST EST</pubDate>
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