I am rooting hard for the D'Backs this year

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2013 Success Has More to do With Scrubs Than Studs

There it is

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This made me laugh. Don Mattingly (benching a healthy Andre Ethier versus a righty starter):

"I felt we got more out of our ability (last year). I don't know about being tougher but I felt we got more out of our ability. There has to be a mixture of competitiveness. It's not 'Let's put an All-Star team together and the All-Star team wins.' It's finding that balance of a team that has a little bit of grit and will fight you. And also having talent to go with it. All grit and no talent isn't going to make you successful. But all talent and not grit isn't going to get you there either."

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