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The pitching prizes of fall 2009

By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, August 13, 2009

This article appears in the Aug. 24 issue of ESPN The Magazine as a sidebar to Jorge Arangure Jr.'s feature on Aroldis Chapman, under the slug 'Rumor Central.' Aroldis Chapman is the Bigfoot of baseball. There have been reported sightings, in international play, and in those brief glimpses talent evaluators have seen a lefthander with a monstrous fastball who could seemingly leave his footprint all over the major leagues. But team officials need verification that Chapman really exists as ...

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