Charging the Mound: Next Year's Rankings Today

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From: "Christopher Liss"
Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 5:15pm
To: "Jeff Erickson"
Subject: Charging

Baseball season really is endless. It already seems kind of over as we're gearing up for football, but in reality there's still two full months left. Just as Matt Kemp was the story of early April, and Josh Hamilton the story through May, Mike Trout is now the dominant player through the first week of August. Is there yet another player who will be the story of late-August and September? And who might that be? Might Justin Verlander's 14K, 0 ER outing against the Yankees be the start of his two-month run? Or will it be Albert Pujols who finishes hitting .300 with 40 HR?

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