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By Jorge Arangure Jr.
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, April 13, 2009

This article originally appeared in the April 20th issue of ESPN The Magazine. On a warm spring morning at the Phoenix training facility of the A's, Matt Holliday hops on a stationary bike for the first of his two-a-day sessions. He sets a bottle of water and a sports drink atop the control panel and begins to tap away at the buttons. Then he takes a sip of water, puts on his headphones and starts to pedal, which causes the inside-out back pockets of his uniform pants to flop up and down li ...

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