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Squeeze play

By Jeff Merron
Page 2

Monday, April 25, 2005

Baseball's not a fair game. We had a news hook for this lineup of the all-time, all-fat major-league team, and the Royals went and messed it up. The hook would be the celebration of Calvin Pickering's return to the Royals after the birth of his first child. Unfortunately, while we were rounding up this list of big guys, the Royals sent the 6-foot-5, 295-pound first baseman down to Triple-A Omaha. Pickering was hitting only .148 in 27 at-bats, but still, that's a quick demotion for a guy who hit ...

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