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Fundamental Change

By Buster Olney

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

INSIDE STORY On a cold March day in Fort Myers, JOE MAUER is driving baseballs over the left-centerfield fence like he's flipping pancakes. This makes no sense. The weather is downright nasty, and the 21-year-old Twins catcher hits lefthanded, so he really has no right to launch balls that far, in that direction. But Mauer is the prototypical practitioner of a hitting style that's gaining popularity. In diamond parlance, it's called hitting inside the baseball. Translated for the rest of us: the ...

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