* got Jimmy Rollins from the Phillies for prospects * got a bunch of prospects from the Marlins for Dee Gordon and Dan Haren * dealt the best of those Marlins prospects (Andrew Heaney) to the Angels for Howie Kendrick * signed Brandon McCarthy
Whew
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." --- Bart Giamatti, on baseball
Here are the flaws in that line-up: The shortstop looked like Wade Boggs in his .259 '92 season the last 2 plus months, and might be like Valentin in that when he went off the juice, the went bad.
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