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Kenny Rogers will miss next scheduled start | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
MINNEAPOLIS -- After talking to Kenny Rogers on Friday, manager Jim Leyland said the left-hander will skip his next start, then return to the rotation a week from today in Chicago. Leyland suspects Rogers has a painful hip. "It's not his arm -- I think he needs to freshen up his body a little bit and get his hip a little better," Leyland said. Leyland said there's "a good chance" left-hander ...
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The Detroit Tiger Weblog — ... The Tigers are going to be mixing and matching down the stretch it appears. Kenny Rogers will miss his next start. This is due to hip pain that is believed to be rendering him completely ineffective. (Yes, the old guy has a bad hip. The jokes seem to easy to make, but too easy to ignore also.) ...

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