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...Island to spend a couple of days holed up in a friend’s basement bunker. Armed with various forecasting publications, reams of statistics and an unhealthy knowledge of the positional depth charts of all 16 National League franchises, we set about carefully assigning dollar values to every player in the N.L. based upon our projections of their 2006 performance. The goal was to develop an approximate plan of action—something along the lines of “spend twice as much money on hitting than pitching...
...accomplish all these things.” “I think that is one of the things that happens when you come to Harvard,” Brand added. “No matter whether you’re in a perceived minority sport, or a football player, or a virtuoso violinist, no matter what you do, you always get the resources and support you need to excel, and I place that directly at the feet of Larry Summers and the administration and the Harvard Athletics Department.” This was Cross’s last year competing...
...That’s the most devastating loss I’ve ever been involved in, as a coach or a player,” coach Joe Walsh said. “I’m just hoping it doesn’t do damage to the ballclub and to our mindsets...
...Making a full-season squad is the ultimate goal for every player at Spring Training. Doing so affords you a certain amount of security, which is a precious commodity in the life of a minor leaguer...
More importantly, when you are stuck in Extendo there is no safe ground below you; if you aren’t cutting it there, the next step is to be released. And this is a possibility that every player is aware...