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September 1 update
It's frustrating, as this isn't a bad team- 16-11 this past month. But we're just not making up enough ground. We're still 5 1/2 games out of the wild card and have three teams we'd have to vault over. Dallas appears to have wrapped up the WC South. Kudos to John McCants, who's put together a nice season in his first year with the club. Cornell Walton continues to put together just a miserable season for him. And Javier Garcia has had a pretty wretched year too. Al Brooks is in the middle of a 3-week stint on the DL with a torn hamstring- ouch. In the rotation, Matt Johnson, Hector Ortega, and Curt Wright all had strong months. Our possible closer-in-waiting Manuel Ruiz has had a strong season- he already throws 99 and should improve his stuff substantially in the next few seasons.
For the second year in a row, no all-stars. It would be nice if we could beat out Mexico City in the standings- we finished 26 games behind them last year, and have won the first three games of a four-game series against them heading into September.
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