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Marlins hurting in the pen

By James Quintong

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The curse of Relief Efforts strikes again. My colleague Eric Karabell often bemoans the fact that a top closer lands on the DL or loses his job mere hours after the Relief Efforts column is posted on Wednesday afternoons. Now, I have a first-hand experience with this as I filled in for Karabell this week and soon the Marlins' Matt Lindstrom was placed on the DL with a sprained right elbow. Lindstrom, who also struggled with elbow issues during spring training and the World Baseball Classic, wil ...

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