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In baseball, it's all about talent ... or is it about chemistry?

By Jim Caple
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

This is the time of year when you hear last season's losing teams confidently predicting that the new players they brought in will dramatically improve clubhouse chemistry and inspire a winning atmosphere that will lead to more victories. But is there such a thing as team chemistry, or are they just full of it? Do clubhouse relations really have any effect on a team's performance once it takes the field? "Winning creates chemistry more than the other way around," Los Angeles Dodgers manager J ...

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