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Cockcroft: Florida Marlins preview

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Monday, February 5, 2007

They say baseball's a kid's game, and that sure was the case with the 2006 Marlins. Coming off their second winter fire sale in a decade -- the last was the one following their 1997 World Series championship -- the Marlins entered last season with easily the youngest and cheapest roster in the big leagues. They used 22 different rookies, 11 of them making their major league debuts, and set a record for at-bats by rookies (3,694). One might think such an inexperienced team would be destined for ...

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