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Mark Whicker: Dodgers win NL West again, but this time it wasn’t easy

"The Dodgers won the National League West on Thursday night, Sept. 26. Not in April or March or even February, as they’ve done in the past.

This was not a matter of making sure scorpions didn’t get inside the ball bags in Arizona, or making sure the landing gear was functional on the team plane. This was a pitched battle, and not very well pitched at that. The Dodgers’ starting rotation."

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Mark Whicker: Gaudreau brothers tragedy brings to mind late Ken Hubbs of Cubs

"They give out the Ken Hubbs awards in San Bernardino, Ca.

The best high school players in the area are eligible. In 2019 Jayden Daniels, the quarterback from Cajon High, was the football winner. The actual award is probably deep in Daniels’ closet by now, since he won the Heisman Trophy and made the grand post-season banquet tour after he finished at LSU last year. Now a rookie with the Washington Commanders, there’s a chance Daniels hasn’t quite grasped who Ken Hubbs was."

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Elliott: First CBN Scout of the Year winner Scherrer let go by White Sox

This week the Chicago White Sox said goodbye to scout Billy Scherrer, part of their scouting department for the past 22 years. He began scouting for the Florida Marlins after his playing career, then worked for his old Cincinnati Reds team from 1998 to 2002. Scherrer, who grew up in the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda, N.Y. and later moved to Arizona, was the first winner of the Canadian Baseball Network Scout of the Year award.

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