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Cockcroft: Los Angeles Dodgers preview

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Friday, February 9, 2007

Speed's the name of the game in Los Angeles this season, as the team that finished first in the game in triples (58) and fifth in stolen bases (128) and added the National League's No. 2 speedster during the winter in center fielder Juan Pierre (58). Now, like those St. Louis Cardinals teams of the mid-1980s, these Dodgers are built around speed and pitching, quite a change from their brief attempt to emulate the Oakland Athletics. Not that Pierre or shortstop Rafael Furcal, who were both among ...

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