Daric Barton was born in Springfield, Vermont, a piece of fortune that might have doomed him to a life of numb fingers and few opportunities to play baseball. But he didn't last long in Vermont. "Two weeks," he said the other day. Shortly after birth, he explained, Barton's family left Vermont and eventually landed in California, where he learned how to tell the difference between balls and strikes better than most young hitters in his sport. Barton, now 22, has 1,729 at-bats in his career, and ...

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