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baseballthinkfactory.org - 8/23/2007
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Clayton Hamilton felt the persistent pain in his lower side for more than a year.
The Pittsburgh Pirates doctors and trainers kept telling the right-handed pitching prospect that he had a strained oblique muscle, which has become the baseball injury of the 2000s. They told him to rest and it would get better.
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The pain is still there and will cause Hamilton to miss the remainder of ...
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