First base Duncan's only concern

 
Yankees first baseman Shelley Duncan, who endured an offseason of multiple blood clots in his right armpit and landed in the hospital for about a week, was ultimately put him on a regimen of blood thinners and let his body do the rest. And it did. Now, three months later, Duncan has arrived at Spring Training early, eager to shove all that health business into his past. [link]

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