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2. Need to justify payroll, relief fireballers, show fans they try their darndest

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 03:44 PM

19 hrs ago

Reliever can be brought in to throw one pitch.

Money is no barrier.

Those are individual pitchers. Aggregates would be interesting.

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