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<title><![CDATA[Second-half previews: National League]]></title>
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Click here for the American League second-half previews.  Washington Nationals Second-half key: What, other than monitoring Stephen Strasburg's inn...]]></description>
<pubDate>July 11, 2012 09:01:21 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Podcast: Futures Game recap, All-Star news]]></title>
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Happy Monday! Keith Law and I gathered in downtown Kansas City on Monday morning to tape the latest Baseball Today podcast, talking all things All-Sta...]]></description>
<pubDate>July 09, 2012 11:02:55 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NL second-half team previews]]></title>
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And now a look at the National League. Click here for the American League second-half team previews.  Philadelphia Phillies (57-34, +89 run differen...]]></description>
<pubDate>July 14, 2011 10:01:18 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Grading the NL teams through May]]></title>
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Philadelphia Phillies (34-20) It sounds odd and awfully nitpicky to say, but the Phillies could have been better. The big problem has been the offens...]]></description>
<pubDate>May 31, 2011 12:38:50 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bucs' Alvarez not among RoY candidates]]></title>
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Among the reasons to be (guardedly) optimistic about the Pirates' future: farm products Neil Walker, Pedro Alvarez, Andrew McCutchen, and Jose Tabata,...]]></description>
<pubDate>August 25, 2010 14:41:50 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oswalt racing clock for franchise record]]></title>
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Bernardo Fallas on a game that might remain in the memories of Astros fans for a long, long time:  If this was Roy Oswalt's farewell performance as t...]]></description>
<pubDate>July 08, 2010 15:51:08 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lee throws strikes, should leave M's]]></title>
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Jeff Passan on Cliff Lee, who figures to be our second-most famous pitcher until he's traded:  The team that acquired him during the offseason, the S...]]></description>
<pubDate>June 14, 2010 11:11:22 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No. 5 Starter Watch: Pirates]]></title>
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Rest easy, Nation. All those burning questions about the Piratical rotation have finally been answered. Alan Dell:  All Daniel McCutchen wanted was a...]]></description>
<pubDate>March 25, 2010 06:39:19 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[As a Pirate, McLouth was flying blind]]></title>
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In the middle of Nate McLouth (and his chronicler) ripping the Pirates for doing what they really had to do -- trading veterans like McLouth and Nady ...]]></description>
<pubDate>March 05, 2010 06:15:21 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Remembering Indians SS George Strickland]]></title>
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I saw an obituary in the Times yesterday for George Strickland, a player in the 1950s:  Strickland played 10 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1950...]]></description>
<pubDate>February 25, 2010 11:20:37 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brewers losing on field, winning at gate]]></title>
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I suppose it&#x26;#39;s not going to make anyone&#x26;#39;s list of 2009&#x26;#39;s biggest stories, but it&#x26;#39;s worth noting what the Brewers have accomplished thi...]]></description>
<pubDate>August 31, 2009 09:15:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mariners, Rangers unlikely contenders]]></title>
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Posted by Steve Buffum One of the more intriguing matchups yesterday featured Seattle and Texas, two teams that weren&#x26;#39;t supposed to be serious con...]]></description>
<pubDate>August 03, 2009 13:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stan and Guy: 4/7]]></title>
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Stan and Guy recap the Penguins loss to the Caps with Pens' Play-by-Play Announcer Paul Steigerwald and Major League Baseball with ESPN.com's Rob Neye...]]></description>
<pubDate>April 07, 2010 10:28:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Sox trade for 1B LaRoche?]]></title>
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Well, this is weird: Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the Red Sox have traded for first baseman Adam LaRoche of the P...]]></description>
<pubDate>July 22, 2009 09:56:57 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Friday Filberts]]></title>
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Today&#x26;#39;s links began as essays, were distilled to Tweets, then fed protein shakes on their way to becoming full-grown Filberts ... &#x26;bull; I recentl...]]></description>
<pubDate>July 10, 2009 02:13:14 PDT</pubDate>
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