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Leading off: The All-Give-Up-On team

By Eric Karabell
ESPN.com

Monday, April 20, 2009

It's always a bit dangerous to speak in superlatives about baseball players. They are human beings, after all, and subject to good and bad days (or weeks, or months) like the rest of us, and whether they are struggling at the plate or seem like they own it, it's a long season, with an ebb and flow, and things will change. I try to relay my thoughts on players, and yes, sometimes they might be boring, as in "Rick Ankiel will do exactly what we thought he'd do" or "Enjoy those 12 Jarrod Washburn ...

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