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Four Thoughts: Giants Workload Hangover, Sandy Alderson Past and Future

If the World Series champions are concerned that career-high workloads for their top four starting pitchers will lead to a reckoning in 2011, they aren't letting on. "No, I don't have any worry, because our guys are some of the best in the business at handling pitchers," Giants general manager Brian Sabean told FanHouse....

Get the Morphine: Joyner Thinks Closing Out Boston Will Be Challenge

Forgive Wally Joyner if he's nervous as the Angels attempt to close out the Boston Red Sox on Sunday in Game 3 of the American League Division Series. The last time the Angels were in this position against Boston -- ahead by two games entering Game 5 of the League Championship Series in 1986 -- the Red Sox dealt a blow...

The Dugout: Cleaning Up

or, "On the Occasion of Jon Bois' Birthday." Happy birthday, friend, you're still way better at this than me.Two bits of bad news for Wally Joyner. Firstly, he's been canned as the hitting coach for the San Diego Padres. Secondly, his original Dugout screen name of "WallyJoynerInHolyMatrimony" is slightly too long to be...

Nomar Meets His YouTube Doppelganger

You know Batting Stance Guy? Of course you do. He's famous on YouTube for his hysterical (and eerily accurate) impersonations of batting stances of, well, everybody. Most of the time he films in his backyard, but recently he went to a Dodgers/Padres game where he showed off for actual big leaguers -- there he is above...

Padres Can Hitting Coach Merv Rettenmund, Resurrect Wally Joyner

And by firing Rettenmund who had been the team's hitting coach since June of '06, they became the third team in the weak-hitting NL West to fire a hitting coach. The Dodgers fired coach Eddie Murray and replaced him with Bill Mueller, and the D-Backs canned Kevin Seitzer about three weeks ago, replacing him with Rick Schu....