newsday.com - 6/21/2008
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Johnny Damon missed a fly ball in leftfield and a bit of Joe Girardi strategy backfired, leading to the deciding three-run inning in the Yankees' 4-2 loss to the Reds at Yankee Stadium on Friday night.
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The Best Pitcher in the Major Leauges is Edinson Volquez
Sportsfrog.com —
... scorer in Florida turned an obvious error into a hit.
His fastball hits 97 or 98 when he wants it to. He deals it generally around 94. His changeup should be illegal. When he throws it close to how he wants to, it is unhittable. He also has a rapidly improving curveball.
He is just 24, and while Josh Hamilton is tearing up the AL, the deal that sent Hamilton to Texas and brought Volquez to Cincy is one the Reds would do 100 times out of 100.
Color the Yankees suitably impressed (comparisons to Pedro and all that jazz).
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