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Where should Chase Utley be drafted?
hardballtimes.com - 2/25/2009
Where should Chase Utley be drafted?
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Why Chase Utley could be the biggest early round bargain of 2009. Click the title to read more. Order the Hardball Times 2009 Season Preview today !
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/19/2009
When a Batter Is Hit by a Pitch, What’s the Next Batter Thinking? A Guest Post - ...
— freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com — Now that A-Rod has delivered the annual Yankees Substance Abuse Lecture to kick off spring training, I... think we’re all ready for some actual baseball. Micah Kelber is a writer and freelance rabbi who lives in Brooklyn, currently writing a screenplay ... (more) When a Batter Is Hit by a Pitch, What’s the Next ...

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Utley optimistic about Opening Day | phillies.com: News
philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com - 2/20/2009
Utley optimistic about Opening Day | phillies.com: News
— philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com — CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Chase Utley looks around the Bright House Field clubhouse, sees players like Ryan Howard... and Brett Myers at least 20 pounds lighter than last season and considers it a good sign. It shows his Phillies teammates are committed to ... (more) Utley optimistic about Opening Day | phillies.com: News

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Gudel: Utley Takes BP for the First Time This Spring
csnphilly.com - 2/21/2009
Gudel: Utley Takes BP for the First Time This Spring
— csnphilly.com — Friday, February 20, 2009 By Leslie Gudel Comcast SportsNet Chase Utley is known for laying low, so... it seems only fitting that he took batting practice off a live pitcher in the batting cage Thursday and nobody knew about it... not even his manager. ... (more) Gudel: Utley Takes BP for the First Time This Spring

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Interview with Derek Carty from The Hardball Times-Part 3
FakeTeams — ... year that if you combine the stats of a high-skill, injury-prone player with those of a replacement level player (when he's injured), you end up with a stat line well-worth the reduced cost of the so-called "injury risk" player. This is a strategy that will only work in shallower leagues like this one, though, because the static production of the replacement level players is much higher than it will be in deep leagues. In an AL/NL-only league, this would fail miserably because replacement level is someone like ...

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