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2010's Managerial Exodus Will Give Dugouts Different Look Next Spring

All this week, the FanHouse staff will look back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010. When the 2010 baseball season started, four of the top 14 managers all-time in terms of win total were at the helm of big league teams. When 2011 starts, only one of those four, St. Louis' Tony La Russa, will still be...

Twelve Thoughts: Towers in Arizona, Car-Go and A's, Kirk Gibson's Future

The Padres were a sports car needing mostly a tuneup years ago when they hired as their general manager Kevin Towers, who now takes over a bad Diamondbacks team. When Towers replaced Randy Smith in late 1995, the rookie GM inherited the future all-time saves leader in Trevor Hoffman and a future Hall of Famer in Tony...

Twelve Thoughts: Dodgers Ownership, Upton and Griffey, All-Star Bonuses

• Bud Selig needs to find a new owner for the Dodgers. Time to make amends, commish. You steered Frank and Jamie McCourt, the dodgy duo from the Evil Coast, into control of the Dodgers. They've shown they weren't to be trusted. Baseball deserves better. The West Coast deserves better. Millions of Dodgers fans deserve...

Twelve Thoughts: Hart's Homers, Professor Maddux, Dirt on D'backs

• Unless he leaves his bats in Milwaukee, Brewers slugger Corey Hart should hit a lot better in the All-Star Home Run Derby than he did in his only other Home Run Derby. "I was in A-ball, and I hit one home run in the whole thing," Hart told FanHouse. "The guy who won it hit two. The pitcher was some high school kid....

A.J. Hinch No Longer Lacking Experience

When A.J. Hinch took over as manager of the Diamondbacks last May, all the talk was about his lack of experience. After he got fired 14 months into the job, he could take solace in one thing. "Now I've had one of the more unique experiences, and it's something I'm very proud of," Hinch said in a conference call on Friday,...