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April 20, 2013 by Chris Mitchell · Leave a Comment

#BOSTON STRONG The Daily Stream — Saturday Version Hello fellow fisherman, it is time for The Daily Stream – The Saturday Version. This week has been a fantasy week filled with mid level double starts and more than your fair share of bad pitching. Matt Cain owners, people that owned and started David Price, Brett […]

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A Tale of Two Teenagers

May 20, 2012 by Austin Gisriel · 3 Comments

Another teenage phenomenon has made his way through Hagerstown, only this year he was wearing visiting gray and his stay lasted for only four games. Dylan Bundy, the Baltimore Orioles 2011 first-round draft pick who is rated by many scouts as the best high school pitching prospect in the last 25 years, threw five shutout […]

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An Interview with Texas Rangers’ Prospect Cody Buckel

April 11, 2012 by Andrew Martin · 1 Comment

Since Nolan Ryan became president of the Texas Rangers in 2009, they have become known as one of the tightest run organizations in baseball; combining savvy roster building with cultivating a deep farm system. Because of Ryan’s Hall of Fame pedigree as a pitcher, he has added pressure to develop a stable of dominant young […]

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Koufax or Ryan? Tough choice for Torborg

July 18, 2011 by Dan Schlossberg · Leave a Comment

Don’t ask Jeff Torborg to choose between Sandy Koufax and Nolan Ryan. The only man to catch no-hitters thrown by both can’t make up his mind. A former back-up catcher for the Dodgers and Angels, Torborg caught a perfect game thrown by Koufax in 1965 and no-hitters thrown by Bill Singer in 1970 and Ryan […]

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Stephen Strasburg: It Was Bound To Happen

August 29, 2010 by Jess Coleman · Leave a Comment

Almost three months ago, Nationals Stadium was filled for the first time in itâ€™s existence. Not because the Nationals were playing well, but because the most sought after prospect in baseball, Stephen Strasburg, was set to make his debut. The day was June 8, 2010. The opposing team was the Pittsburg Pirates. If the uniforms […]

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Chasing Down Dutch (Hub) Leonard

June 9, 2010 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment

What do Ubaldo Jimenez and Dutch (Hub) Leonard have in common?Â Nothing and everything. Jimenez is a big, strong, “black”, right-handed power pitcher who features a 95-97 MPH fastball that sometimes reaches triple digits and has sick movement, a slider, curveball, and change-up, the last of which tops out at 88, faster than some hurlers’ […]

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