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Ask the GM: When Trading Wasn't Such a Good Idea

The famous expression goes, "sometimes the best trades are the ones you didn't make..." With the trade deadline approaching, you asked our GM Steve Phillips what the best trade he didn't make was. To hear his answer, along with the answer to which current 24-year-old will break the all-time home run record someday,...

Carlos Zambrano Prefers Mets Over Yankees

Carlos Zambrano will most certainly be one of the most biggest prizes in the 2008 free agent market. Although that's a long way off, Mets fans will be happy to know that if Zambrano were to make his living in the city of New York, that his preference would be Queens over Manhattan. "I like the Yankees, but I don't see...

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11/21/11 Designated hitters Source: Whittier Daily News - Whittier CA The Galaxy instead got their money's worth with a goal as golden as any the franchise has ever had.
06/20/11 Designated hitter Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA On a lot of teams on a lot of weekends, Andrew McCutchen can go 0 for 13, strike out five times and get the ball out of the infield just three times.

Background on Designated Hitter

In baseball, the designated hitter rule is the common name for Major League Baseball Rule 6.10, an official position adopted by the American League in 1973 that allows teams to designate a player, known as the designated hitter (abbreviated DH), to bat in place of the pitcher each time he would otherwise come to home plate, rather than letting the pitcher bat.

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