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O'Dowd searching for ways to improve Rockies

By Rob Neyer
ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 5, 2003

TUCSON -- It's safe to say that the last three years haven't gone exactly as Dan O'Dowd hoped they would. Three years ago, O'Dowd was enjoying his first spring training as general manager of the Colorado Rockies, having been hired away from the Cleveland Indians -- where he'd been assistant GM under John Hart. In 2000, O'Dowd's first season, the Rockies won 82 games. But in each of the last two seasons, the Rockies have finished 73-89. Monday afternoon, under a hazy sky at Hi Corbett Field, I ...

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