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...shoulder the team’s offensive load, but he may not get that much help. The strength of the Yale squad that finished a league-worst 5-15 last season was its starting pitching. But both Matt McCarthy (21st round) and Craig Breslow (26th round) are now playing minor league baseball. For the Bulldogs to improve on last year’s record it would take impact play from freshmen...
...amateur baseball. Once a player enters college, he cannot be drafted until the conclusion of his junior season. And it is only that summer—when an athlete can threaten to return to college—that players have any leverage in post-draft contract negotations. Since minor leaguers receive a set salary—sometimes as low as $700 a month—the initial negotiation for a signing bonus is critical...
...South, but Fried’s family has a history of pursuing an eclectic mix of athletics. His father, Jeffrey Fried, was a three-time All-Ivy High Jumper and former school record holder at University of Pennsylvania. He also owned the now-defunct Macon Whoppee, a minor-league hockey team. His sister Susie is an aspiring Olympian in equestrian, and his uncle Neil was a professional body builder...
...established, it can swap back and forth between its different new hosts with devastating effect. The virus survives and thrives by constantly mutating?so that just as our immune systems recognize and kill off one strain, a new one emerges against which our defenses don't work. Most are minor adaptations, the product of genetic "drift." Every now and then, however, something more dramatic occurs: a genetic "shift." Also termed "a reassortment event," this is the creation of a wholly new strain with genetic elements taken from viruses found in different species...
...apparent about-face, the College’s approval of the constitution came after only minor alterations...