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Grandmaster Zduriencik said "let's not kid ourselves; this is gonna be a tough year" and he had to have been thinking of the slow starts here of Ackley, Smoak, Montero, etc.
I hope that didn't extend itself to the idea of, "let's shed Paxton, Hultzen and Taijuan because what's the use."
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Point of the article, of course, is not that the M's are going to win 100, but that the losing streak is --- > growing pains, as opposed to dry rot :- )