Travis Hafner Is Struggling

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While coming into the 2008 season, the lineup in the AL Central that everybody seemed to be falling in love with was the Detroit Tigers, and it was hard to blame anybody for doing so. I mean, Magglio Ordonez , Curtis Granderson , Carlos Guillen , Gary Sheffield , and they added Miguel Cabrera ? Damn. While I was interested in seeing what kind of astronomical numbers Detroit's lineup could ... [link]

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Travis Hafner Is Struggling
Published 5/2/2008 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
... . I figured that Pronk had just had a down year in 2007, and that this year he would return to the form that saw him get MVP consideration in 2006... Continue reading at FanHouse

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