Command key for Cruceta's success
Published 5/15/2008 by Jason Beck at Major League Baseball News
Like fellow Tigers reliever Denny Bautista, Francisco Cruceta has had to deal with command throughout his career. It's this that has kept him from sticking in the big leagues and sent him bouncing around to five different organizations in his career.
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