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Relief Efforts: Know the situation, not the stats

By Eric Karabell
ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Most baseball players yearn to be in pennant races, which is why pitchers we thought were done for the season somehow have made stunning recoveries and returned. The Florida Marlins and Los Angeles Dodgers have pitchers who are good examples of this. Kevin Gregg and Takashi Saito aren't as done as we thought, eh? Troy Percival probably could use some more time off, but he's still pitching. And Billy Wagner went to the wall -- past the wall, really -- and might have thrown his final pitch. Playe ...

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