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Get ready for Jason Heyward

By Buster Olney

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The conversations between the managers and the opposing third basemen occur organically in the minors, because the manager is often in the third-base coaching box and there is time to kill between innings, between pitches. But over the last month, a handful of third basemen in enemy uniforms have turned to Mississippi Braves manager Phillip Wellman (perhaps best known for this) and said the exact same thing: "He's 19? That's unbelievable." Who is unbelievable at 19? To find out -- and to learn ...

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