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...only one of Hogan's mates in the rotation--junior right-hander Don Jamieson--will be back on the hill come today's opener. Classmate Andrew Duffell, the staff ace with an 8-1 record and a 2.35 ERA, underwent ulnar nerve surgery in the off-season and will be unavailable until at least April...
...Left-hander Brian Bohanon went the first four innings, allowing two hits and striking out four, to pick...
Also, Mets right-hander Paul Wilson, who heard a pop in his pitching shoulder Sunday, was cleared to return to the mound by team physician Dr. David Altchek after an MRI showed no structural damage...
...left arm that can sometimes find home plate is worth his weight in television contracts. When those noveau riche Sun Belt teams in Arizona and Tampa conducted their raid on the talent of their older cousins Tuesday afternoon, both immediately went for left-handed pitching. Tampa selected Florida left-hander Tony Saunders with its first pick, while Arizona picked Cleveland lefty Brian Anderson. The draft was further indication of the triumph of America's changing demographics over baseball tradition, as baseball created two new haves in the Sun Belt at the expense of have-nots such as Pittsburgh and Kansas...
Nichols is eloquent on the dangers any single-hander faces: sleeplessness, storms, illness, and the danger of being run down by a freighter highballing at 22 knots with the radar off. But it is Toad, despondent, that commits the kind of suicide possible only if your hull is made of fitted planks. Its 10-year-old caulking gives way, and slowly, reproachfully, despite days of hard pumping, it settles beneath the water, 400 miles off Bermuda, shortly after its master is rescued...