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Will Don Mattingly have the time to turn Marlins into winners?

Published on October 30, 2015 in Sports/Top Headlines by Bob Sparks

With the first two games of the World Series in the books, the annual baseball manager shuffle intensified late this week. The practice of hiring “retreads,” or managers fired in one place only to wind up in another, is alive and well. San Diego, disrupted that pattern this week by hiring Arizona Diamondbacks’ third base coach Andy Green. Green replaces the fired Bud Black, who takes over in Washington. The Nationals fired Matt Williams shortly after a monstrously disappointing season…

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Matt Moore can learn a great deal from John Smoltz

Published on July 24, 2015 in Sports/Top Headlines by Bob Sparks

It is great to see Matt Moore back on the mound for the Rays. This hard-throwing left-hander has the talent to be a star in Major League Baseball, but he has a big challenge to be the Matt Moore he was before Tommy John surgery. He certainly has not been that pitcher during his first outings this season. No one can say for certain Moore had Hall of Fame stuff before his injury. It takes more than electric stuff to…

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Mitch Perry Report for 7.2.15 — A call to (healthy) arms

Published on July 2, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

There’s no crying in baseball. Remember that maxim handed down to us via Tom Hanks’ character to Madonna’s in 1992’s A League of Their Own? But there is heartbreak. Last night at Tropicana Field, Cleveland Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco came within one strike of throwing the Indians’ first no-hitter since Len Barker’s perfect game way back in 1989. But on an 0-2 pitch, Tampa Bay Rays hitter Joey Butler lined a pitch over a diving second baseman’s glove, and the no-no was…

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