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But sabermetric orthodoxy, based on complex run-scoring simulations, says that the number-two batter—who makes almost as many plate appearances as the leadoff man, but bats with more runners on base—should be the club’s best hitter, instead of the high-contact, good-bat-control, move-the-runners-over type that teams have been sticking there since
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These rare birds of baseball, fluent in front office and dipped in dugout wisdom, are “perfect conduits to get a message from high theoretical guys down to guys who are just used to grinding it out on the baseball field,” San Diego Padres manager Andy Green said in 2017. “Unless that message gets translated where a guy speaks both languages, it
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Se refugió en Colombia y luego pasó a Honduras, donde se dedicó en cuerpo y alma a conspirar contra el gobierno de Jacobo Árbenz. Allí fundó el llamado Movimiento de Liberación Nacional e hizo el triple pacto con el general Ydígoras Fuentes y un civil con muchos sesos, el doctor Córdova Cerna, antiguo abogado de la Frutera y colaborador y ministro
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He was replaced by Salley, the 36-year-old deep reserve trying to become the first man to win titles with three different franchises.
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